The Simple Contact Form Plugin for WordPress – WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2025-16817 | The Simple Contact Form Plugin for WordPress – WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. |
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History
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:00 +0000
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| First Time appeared |
Emarketdesign
Emarketdesign wp Easy Contact |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:emarketdesign:wp_easy_contact:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Emarketdesign
Emarketdesign wp Easy Contact |
Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:30:00 +0000
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| Description | The Simple Contact Form Plugin for WordPress – WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. | |
| Title | Simplify Contact Management: WP Easy Contact <= 4.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2025-06-04T13:47:04.151Z
Reserved: 2025-06-03T15:47:01.590Z
Link: CVE-2025-5539
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Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-06-04T05:15:24.733
Modified: 2025-07-10T14:21:01.203
Link: CVE-2025-5539
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD