CVE-2022-0248 Contact Form Submissions < 1.7.3 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts via contact form fields, leading to XSS attacks against administrators viewing submissions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-0248?
CVE-2022-0248 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Contact Form Submissions, published on 14 Mar 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0248?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Contact Form Submissions Project Contact Form Submissions.
How do I fix CVE-2022-0248?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0248 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2022-0248 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0248 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Contact Form Submissions
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v4p8-327w-c7fp.