Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Contact Manager Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-8783

4.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress

Vendor
CVE Published:
19 August 2025

What is CVE-2025-8783?

The Contact Manager plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in the 'title' parameter. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with administrator privileges to inject malicious web scripts into pages, which can be executed when other users visit those compromised pages. This issue primarily affects multi-site installations and environments where the unfiltered_html option is disabled.

Affected Version(s)

Contact Manager * <= 8.6.5

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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CVE-2025-8783 : Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Contact Manager Plugin for WordPress