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Contact Form Entries <= 1.2.3 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-25079Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.3Update to 1.2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Database for Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor forms contact-form-entries

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.3
  2. Patched in1.2.4

Update to 1.2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.3. Version 1.2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Database for Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor forms.
  • 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 1.2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Database for Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor forms to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Gaetano Perrone.

The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.2.4 does not sanitise and escape various parameters, such as form_id, status, end_date, order, orderby and search before outputting them back in the admin page

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Database for Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor forms

All 20
More vulnerabilities in Database for Contact Form 7, WPforms, Elementor forms
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.5Authenticated (Authenticated+) SQL Injection
≤1.5.4Update to 1.5.5
CVE-2026-14872
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.5.2Update to 1.5.3
CVE-2026-57708
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.5.2Update to 1.5.3
CVE-2026-14870
Medium6.5Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Copy/Upload via Elementor Pro Form Upload Field 'raw_value'
≤1.5.1Update to 1.5.2
CVE-2026-9145
High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤1.5.1Update to 1.5.2
CVE-2026-12081

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
Other Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  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.
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