CVE-2022-4226

Simple Basic Contact Form < 20221201 - Admin+ Stored XSS

The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20221201 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected

Simple Basic Contact Form

CVSS v3.1 NVD

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 44th percentile

Published

2022-12-26

Updated

2025-04-14

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c5ca22e0-b7a5-468d-8366-1855ff33851b

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry