Contact Form by WPForms <= 1.5.8.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.5.9
- Affected Plugin
- WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More
- Affected Version
< 1.5.9- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2020-10385
At a glance
CVE-2020-10385 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WPForms WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.5.9. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.5.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2020, reported by Jinson Varghese Behanan.
Vulnerability Overview
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the WPForms Contact Form (aka wpforms-lite) plugin before 1.5.9 for WordPress.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in WPForms < 1.5.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For WPForms the fix is 1.5.9: builds < 1.5.9 are affected, anything from 1.5.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.5.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WPForms: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WPForms 1.5.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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