CVE-2014-8955 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contact Form Clean and Simple plugin (version 4.4.0 and earlier) for WordPress, affecting products by Meg Nicholas. This vulnerability allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'cscf[name]' parameter, requiring medium attack complexity to achieve a partial integrity impact. While the CVSS score is 4.3, indicating a moderate severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:megnicholas:clean_and_simple_contact_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.