# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Mar 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v4p8-327w-c7fp

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0248?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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

- [CVE-2021-24125](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24125/): Contact Form Submissions < 1.7.1 - Authenticated SQL Injection (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0248 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0248 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Contact Form Submissions. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0248/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0248/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0248
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0248
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0248

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0248/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.