CVE-2025-5539: 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 inc

medium Affects wp-easy-contact (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

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 inc

Package
wp-easy-contact (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<4.0.1
Fixed in
4.0.1
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (13.0th percentile)
Published
2025-06-04
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordwp-easy-contact (WordPress plugin) advisories

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