CVE-2022-0248: Contact Form Submissions < 1.7.3 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

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

Affected products

Contact Form Submissions: before 1.7.3 — fixed in 1.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contact Form Submissions 1.7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2682024
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d02cf542-2d75-46bc-a0df-67bbe501cc89
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2682024
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d02cf542-2d75-46bc-a0df-67bbe501cc89

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