CVE-2017-18491

MEDIUMNuclei

Contact Form by BestWebSoft < 4.0.6 - Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: github.com
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2017-18491 has a selected CVSS score of 6.1 (medium); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The contact-form-plugin plugin before 4.0.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Nuclei templates
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Nuclei templates

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ProjectDiscoveryMEDIUMContact Form by BestWebSoft < 4.0.6 - Cross-Site ScriptingCVSS 6.1

The contact-form-plugin plugin before 4.0.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Impact

Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers, potentially stealing session cookies, credentials, or performing actions on behalf of users.

Remediation

Update to version 4.0.6 or later.

WeaknessesCWE-79
Authorsluisfelipe146
Template tagscvecve2017wordpressbwscontact-formwpscanwp-pluginxssauthenticatedbestwebsoftvuln
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:contact_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Shodan: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-plugin/
FOFA: body=/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-plugin/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efd816c3-90d4-40bf-850a-0e4c1a756694 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18491 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18491 https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-plugin/#developers

Source: ProjectDiscovery

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