CVE-2022-40191 (GCVE-0-2022-40191)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-09 14:39 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
WordPress Contact Form By Mega Forms plugin <= 1.2.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Summary
Authenticated (subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ali Khallad's Contact Form By Mega Forms plugin <= 1.2.4 at WordPress.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-20 19:25 UTC
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/meg… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://wordpress.org/plugins/mega-forms/#developers | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khallad | Contact Form By Mega Forms (WordPress plugin) |
Affected:
<= 1.2.4 , ≤ 1.2.4
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2022-09-08 00:00
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- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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