CVE-2025-5539

MEDIUM

WordPress WP Easy Contact <= 4.0.0 - Authenticated Stored XSS via emd_mb_meta Shortcode

Title source: llm

Description

The Simple Contact Form Plugin for WordPress – WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3296825%40wp-easy-contact&new=3296825%40wp-easy-contact&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f584a439-3373-441c-a73e-5931ae63e7ae?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 9.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

emarket-design/Simple Contact Form Plugin for WordPress – WP Easy Contact < 4.0.0

emarketdesign/wp_easy_contact < 4.0.1

Published Jun 04, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026