THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-25079
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2021-25079

Contact Form Entries vulnerability

CVSS
6.1
EPSS
6.8%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.2.4 does not sanitise and escape various parameters, such as form_id, status, end_date, order, orderby and search before outputting them back in the admin page
Affected vendor
Crmperks
Affected product
Contact Form Entries
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2022-01-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 6.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-25079

  • Confirm whether Crmperks Contact Form Entries is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-25079.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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