CVE-2022-0248
moderate-risk
Published 2022-03-14
The Contact Form Submissions WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape additional fields in contact form requests before outputting them in the related submission. As a result, unauthenticated attacker could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing the malicious submission
Do I need to act?
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14.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 85% 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
40
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
23/34 · High
Exploitability
12/34 · Low
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal