CVE-2024-12716: The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20250114 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scri

medium Affects simple-basic-contact-form (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.3, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20250114 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scri

Package
simple-basic-contact-form (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<20250114
Fixed in
20250114
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (25.6th percentile)
Published
2025-05-15
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordsimple-basic-contact-form (WordPress plugin) advisories

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