Advanced Contact form 7 DB <= 1.8.7 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-29408Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.8.7Update to 1.8.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.1
- CVSS
- 6.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- 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?
Advanced Contact form 7 DB advanced-cf7-db
- Affected≤ 1.8.7
- Patched in1.8.8
Update to 1.8.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.7. Version 1.8.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Advanced Contact form 7 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
- Update to version 1.8.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Advanced Contact form 7 DB to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to R3N0.
Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Vsourz Digital's Advanced Contact form 7 DB plugin <= 1.8.7 at WordPress.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Unauthorized Data Import via 'import_cf7_id' ≤2.1.3No patch available | CVE-2026-18594 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0 | CVE-2026-57669 | |
| Medium5.4 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Form Entry Deletion ≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0 | CVE-2026-0811 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Form Submissions Excel Export ≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0 | CVE-2026-0814 |
- Medium6.5Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Disclosure via 'acf7db' Shortcode
≤2.1.1Update to 2.1.2
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Unauthorized Data Import via 'import_cf7_id'
≤2.1.3No patch available
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
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- Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery to Form Entry Deletion
≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Form Submissions Excel Export
≤2.0.9Update to 2.1.0
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
All Cross-Site Scripting| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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.
