Contact Form 7, CVE-2024-2242

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-2242
Home page URL: Security reports for Contact Form 7
Application: Contact Form 7
Published on: Mar 14, 2024
Research Description: The Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘active-tab’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions: max 5.9.2.
Status: vulnerable