vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: ws-form-pro: CVE-2022-23988: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 31, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The WS Form LITE and Pro WordPress plugins before 1.8.176 do not sanitise and escape submitted form data, allowing unauthenticated attacker to submit XSS payloads which will get executed when a privileged user will view the related submission

Solution

ws-form-pro-plugin-cve-2022-23988
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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