TI-2021-18777 Aliases CVE-2021-42361 GHSA-j24g-fmpx-gq7m

Contact Form Email <= 1.3.24 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

LOW 23CWE-79Published 2021-11-17 · Updated 2025-02-14

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: High
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00618 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Contact Form Email	Contact Form Email	1.3.24 – 1.3.24	—	No fix listed	CNA

Contact Form Email VendorContact Form Email Affected 1.3.24 – 1.3.24 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:codepeople:contact_form_email::::::wordpress::*	up to 1.3.24	Vulnerable	codepeople

cpe:2.3:a:codepeople:contact_form_email:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions up to 1.3.24 Vulnerable ·codepeople

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-42361
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j24g-fmpx-gq7m

References

Patch 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2628041%40contact-form-to-email&new=2628041%40contact-form-to-email&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42361

TI-2023-05486 Contact Form Email < 1.3.44 - Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2018-14926 The contact-form-to-email plugin before 1.2.66 for WordPress has CSRF. CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
TI-2023-26181 WordPress Contact Form Email plugin <= 1.3.41 - Captcha Bypass vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2019-07059 The Contact Form Email plugin before 1.2.66 for WordPress allows wp-admin/admin.php item… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2018-14925 The contact-form-to-email plugin before 1.2.66 for WordPress has XSS. CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2025-18444 WordPress Contact Form to Email Plugin <= 1.3.52 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9

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Sources

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