CVE-2022-23179 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not escape some of its form fields before outputting them in attributes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0014.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Themehunk	Contact Form \& Lead Form Elementor Builder

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-28270	The Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not escape some of its form fields before outputting them in attributes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/90b8af99-e4a1-4076-99fa-efe805dd4be4/

History

Fri, 09 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:52:09.488Z

Updated: 2025-05-09T16:01:44.712Z

Reserved: 2022-01-12T09:37:44.753Z

Link: CVE-2022-23179

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T03:36:20.059Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:09.737

Modified: 2025-05-09T16:15:22.427

Link: CVE-2022-23179

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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