CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-42361
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
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.
Affected configurations
• codepeople contact form email (<= 1.3.24)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
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= Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42361 Third Party Advisory
- 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= Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42361 Third Party Advisory