CVE-2015-2040

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Contact Form DB (aka CFDB and contact-form-7-to-database-extension) plugin 2.8.26 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the submit_time parameter in the CF7DBPluginSubmissions page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

Cfdbplugin Contact Form Db: 2.8.26

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130311/WordPress-Contact-Form-DB-2.8.26-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100818
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130311/WordPress-Contact-Form-DB-2.8.26-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100818

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