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CVE-2023-2302: Contact Form and Calls To Action by vcita <= 2.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: none known
• Published: 2023-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form and Calls To Action by vcita plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'email' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with the edit_posts capability, such as contributors and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• vcita Contact Form and Calls To Action by vcita: through 2.6.4

References

• https://blog.jonh.eu/blog/security-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins-by-vcita
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lead-capturing-call-to-actions-by-vcita/trunk/vcita-callback.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2933281%40lead-capturing-call-to-actions-by-vcita%2Ftrunk&old=2748059%40lead-capturing-call-to-actions-by-vcita%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4dfc237a-9157-4da9-ba8f-9daf2ba4f20b?source=cve
• https://blog.jonh.eu/blog/security-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins-by-vcita
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lead-capturing-call-to-actions-by-vcita/trunk/vcita-callback.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4dfc237a-9157-4da9-ba8f-9daf2ba4f20b?source=cve

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