CVE-2024-0239 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Contact Form 7 Connector WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against administrators.

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Contact Form 7 Connector

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.2.3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ari-soft:contact_form_7_connector:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-16037	The Contact Form 7 Connector WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against administrators.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.00365.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b9a4a3e3-7cdd-4354-8541-4219bd41c854/

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'}`

Subscriptions

Ari-soft Contact Form 7 Connector

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:57:03.662Z

Updated: 2026-01-09T21:04:23.881Z

Reserved: 2024-01-04T16:42:56.531Z

Link: CVE-2024-0239

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:41:16.028Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:14.507

Modified: 2025-05-09T16:15:22.680

Link: CVE-2024-0239

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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