CVE-2021-25080
moderate-risk
Published 2022-01-24
The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.1.7 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address retrieved via headers such as CLIENT-IP and X-FORWARDED-FOR, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the created entry
Do I need to act?
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51.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 48% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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6
CVSS 6.1/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
46
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
23/34 · High
Exploitability
18/34 · Moderate
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal