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CVE-2023-2718: Contact Form Email < 1.3.38 - Unauthenticated 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: yes
• Published: 2023-06-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.38 does not escape submitted values before displaying them in the HTML, leading to a Stored XSS vulnerability.

Affected products

• codepeople Contact Form Email: before 1.3.38 — fixed in 1.3.38

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: codepeople Contact Form Email 1.3.38. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705
• https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705
• https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins

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