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

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Contact Form Plugin
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 June 2025

Badges

👾 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.

CVE-2025-5730 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e1e7f423-f981-413c-a99a-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Krugov Artyom
WPScan
.