Contact Form Plugin up to 1.1.28 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Contact Form Plugin up to 1.1.28 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-5730. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Contact Form Plugin up to 1.1.28 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Contact Form Plugin WordPress plugin before 1.1.29 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

The weakness was published by Krugov Artyom. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-5730 since 06/05/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.1.29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-19513). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Contact Form Plugin

Version

• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.1.9
• 1.1.10
• 1.1.11
• 1.1.12
• 1.1.13
• 1.1.14
• 1.1.15
• 1.1.16
• 1.1.17
• 1.1.18
• 1.1.19
• 1.1.20
• 1.1.21
• 1.1.22
• 1.1.23
• 1.1.24
• 1.1.25
• 1.1.26
• 1.1.27
• 1.1.28

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