CVE-2022-23179: Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder < 1.7.0 - Multiple Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not escape some of its form fields before outputting them in attributes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder: before 1.7.0 — fixed in 1.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder 1.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/90b8af99-e4a1-4076-99fa-efe805dd4be4/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/90b8af99-e4a1-4076-99fa-efe805dd4be4/

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