CVE-2008-0197

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-contact-form/options-contactform.php in the WP-ContactForm 1.5 alpha and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) wpcf_email, (2) wpcf_subject, (3) wpcf_question, (4) wpcf_answer, (5) wpcf_success_msg, (6) wpcf_error_msg, or (7) wpcf_msg parameter to wp-admin/admin.php, or (8) the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element.

Affected products

WordPress Wp-Contactform: through 1.5_alpha

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument546.html
http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument667.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/1600/
http://websecurity.com.ua/1641/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument546.html
http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument667.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/1600/

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