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CVE-2022-2116 (GCVE-0-2022-2116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-15 08:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:24
VLAI
Title
Elementor Contact Form DB < 1.8.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Contact Form DB WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in attributes, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Contact Form DB – Elementor Affected: 1.8.0 , < 1.8.0 (custom)
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Credits
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of WuHan University
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