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CVE-2021-24967: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder WordPress plugin before version 1.6.4 contains an unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by Krzysztof Zając and publicly disclosed on November 29, 2021 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists because the plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape lead values. This security flaw has been assigned CVE-2021-24967 and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (Medium). The vulnerability requires user interaction but no privileges, has a network attack vector, and affects both confidentiality and integrity at a low level (AttackerKB).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in administrators who view the inserted Leads. The attack can compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the affected system at a low level (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.6.4 of the Contact Form & Lead Form Elementor Builder plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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