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Best Contact Management Software for WordPress, CVE-2025-5539

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-5539

Published on
Jun 04, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 4.0.1.
Status
vulnerable