Autocomplete Location field Contact Form 7 < 3.0 - Admin+ Store Cross-Site Scripting

2023-11-2100:00:00

Bob Matyas

contact form 7

xss

google place api

admin store

cross-site scripting

7.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.1%

JSON

Description The plugin 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)

1. Go to "Contact > Google Place API"
2. Add the payload `"><script>alert(1)</script>`
3. Save the changes and reload the page to see the XSS