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CVE-2021-42361

Contact Form Email <= 1.3.24 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published: Nov 17, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-79
4.8MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.6%
Top 53.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
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Description

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and escaping via the name parameter found in the ~/trunk/cp-admin-int-list.inc.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.3.24. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:HUI:RS:CC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

codepeople
commercialaka codepeople ltd, code people
contact form emailOn-premCMS Plugin
Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin
Contact Form Email
oss-project
Contact Form EmailLibrary
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2628041%40contact-form-to-email&new=2628041%40contact-form-to-email&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42361
wordfence.com

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