Contact Form Email <= 1.3.24 — Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-42361Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.24Update to 1.3.25 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.8
- CVSS
- 4.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Contact Form Email contact-form-to-email
- Affected≤ 1.3.24
- Patched in1.3.25
Update to 1.3.25 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.24. Version 1.3.25 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contact Form Email.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.3.25, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contact Form Email to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Mohammed Aadhil Ashfaq.
The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and escaping via the name parameter found in the ~/trunk/cp-admin-int-list.inc.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.3.24. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled. CVE-2021-47926 is a duplicate of this.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 18| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.3.68Update to 1.3.69 | CVE-2026-112379 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.3.63Update to 1.3.64 | CVE-2026-32483 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤1.3.60Update to 1.3.61 | CVE-2025-10019 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.3.58Update to 1.3.59 | CVE-2025-64369 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.3.52Update to 1.3.53 | CVE-2025-24727 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.3.68Update to 1.3.69
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.3.63Update to 1.3.64
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤1.3.60Update to 1.3.61
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤1.3.58Update to 1.3.59
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.3.52Update to 1.3.53
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
All Cross-Site Scripting| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
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- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder
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- Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System
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- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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