Vulnerability · Published Dec 26, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2022-4226Simple Basic Contact Form < 20221201 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Simple Basic Contact Form from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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).

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Simple Basic Contact Form 0 – before 20221201

References