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CVE-2026-71249: 299Ko's public contact form (plugin/contact/controllers/ContactController.php, home()) sets raw POST field values (name, firstname, email, message)

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026, 22:58 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
6.1Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 16% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Aug 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 3 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Until a fix is provided, users should consider implementing input sanitization or output encoding on the affected fields in the contact form to prevent injection of malicious scripts. Additionally, applying web application firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block XSS payloads may help mitigate exploitation risk.

Description

299Ko's public contact form improperly handles user input by inserting raw POST field values into the page template without sanitization. This results in a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability where an unauthenticated attacker can inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of users who submit or auto-submit the form, potentially including administrators. The vulnerability arises because the template engine outputs variables without escaping HTML special characters.

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