CVE-2014-8955

medium

Published 2014-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contact Form Clean and Simple (clean-and-simple-contact-form-by-meg-nicholas) plugin 4.4.0 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the cscf[name] parameter to contact-us/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
megnicholas	clean_and_simple_contact_form	`{"endIncluding":"4.4.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.