CVE-2022-2187 (GCVE-0-2022-2187)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-17 10:37 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:32
VLAI
Title
Contact Form 7 Captcha < 0.1.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Contact Form 7 Captcha WordPress plugin before 0.1.2 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Contact Form 7 Captcha Affected: 0.1.2 , < 0.1.2 (custom)
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Credits
ZhongFu Su(JrXnm) of WuHan University
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