cve-2022-4226
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-26 12:28
Modified
2025-04-14 14:06
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20221201 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c5ca22e0-b7a5-468d-8366-1855ff33851bExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c5ca22e0-b7a5-468d-8366-1855ff33851bExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Simple Basic Contact Form Version: 0   < 20221201
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