CVE-2021-25079: Contact Form Entries < 1.2.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.2.4 does not sanitise and escape various parameters, such as form_id, status, end_date, order, orderby and search before outputting them back in the admin page

Affected products

Contact Form Entries – Contact Form 7, WPforms and more: before 1.2.4 — fixed in 1.2.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contact Form Entries – Contact Form 7, WPforms and more 1.2.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2629442
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c3d49271-9656-4428-8357-0d1d77b7fc63
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2629442
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c3d49271-9656-4428-8357-0d1d77b7fc63

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