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CVE-2024-5809: WP Ajax Contact Form <= 2.2.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-07-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Ajax Contact Form WordPress plugin through 2.2.2 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against admin users

Affected products

• WP Ajax Contact Form: through 2.2.2

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0af9fbcf-5f0e-4f7f-ae60-b46e704cf0a5/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0af9fbcf-5f0e-4f7f-ae60-b46e704cf0a5/

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