SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-0248

As a result, unauthenticated attacker could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing the malicious submission

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.72%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.72%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Contact Form Submissions WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape additional fields in contact form requests before outputting them in the related submission. As a result, unauthenticated attacker could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing the malicious submission

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.72% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
contact form submissions project/contact form submissions
Source
contact@wpscan.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.