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CVE-2022-2116: Elementor Contact Form DB < 1.8.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form DB WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in attributes, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Affected products

• Contact Form DB – Elementor: before 1.8.0 — fixed in 1.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contact Form DB – Elementor 1.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/01568da4-2ecf-4cf9-8030-31868ce0a87a
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/01568da4-2ecf-4cf9-8030-31868ce0a87a

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