Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Contact Form Plugin by WordPress
CVE-2025-5730

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress

Vendor
CVE Published:
30 June 2025

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

What is CVE-2025-5730?

The Contact Form Plugin for WordPress prior to version 1.1.29 suffers from a vulnerability where it fails to adequately sanitize and escape user-defined settings. This oversight allows high-privilege users, such as contributors, to exploit the flaw by performing stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially compromising the integrity and security of the web application.

Affected Version(s)

Contact Form Plugin 0 < 1.1.29

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

References

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Krugov Artyom
WPScan
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CVE-2025-5730 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Contact Form Plugin by WordPress