CVE-2023-2718 — The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.38 does not escape submitted values before displaying them in the HTML, leading to a Stored XSS vulnerability.

01What is this vulnerability?

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.38 does not escape submitted values before displaying them in the HTML, leading to a Stored XSS vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Contact Form Email	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-06-12T17:28:21.468Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T06:33:05.488Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705
• www.onvio.nl — https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpres…