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Medium · 6.1 Public exploit CVE-2024-2242 EUVD-2024-27198GHSA-4844-58hp-rqwx

Contact Form 7 <= 5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Published Mar 13, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: rocklobsterinc Product: Contact Form 7 Category: Web / CMS

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rocklobsterinc Contact Form 7 ≤ 5.9 —

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