CVE-2025-7340: The HT Contact Form Widget For Elementor Page Builder & Gutenberg Blocks & Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the temp_fil

critical Affects ht-contactform (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

The HT Contact Form Widget For Elementor Page Builder & Gutenberg Blocks & Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the temp_fil

Package
ht-contactform (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<2.2.2
Fixed in
2.2.2
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 2% (77.8th percentile)
Published
2025-07-15
Source
nvd

References

CWE-434
NVD recordht-contactform (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# PHP projects (recommended)
composer require --dev phpwarden/phpwarden
# then
vendor/bin/phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

# or, without Composer
pipx install phpwarden   &&   phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs   How findings are ranked

Related advisories