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Contact Form DB <= 2.8.26 — Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2015-2040Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.8.26Update to 2.8.28 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Contact Form DB contact-form-7-to-database-extension

  1. Affected≤ 2.8.26
  2. Patched in2.8.28

Update to 2.8.28 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.8.26. Version 2.8.28 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contact Form DB.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.8.28, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Contact Form DB to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contact Form DB (aka CFDB and contact-form-7-to-database-extension) plugin 2.8.26 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the submit_time parameter in the CF7DBPluginSubmissions page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Contact Form DB

All 5
More vulnerabilities in Contact Form DB
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.6CSV Injection
2.10.32 – 2.10.32Update to 2.10.36
CVE-2018-9035
Medium4.3Cross-site request forgery via a request in the CF7DBPluginSubmissions page to wp-admin/admin.php
≤2.8.29Update to 2.8.32
CVE-2015-1874
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
<2.8.18Update to 2.8.18
—
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.8.19Update to 2.8.20
CVE-2014-7139

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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