CVE-2015-4010

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Encrypted Contact Form plugin before 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the iframe_url parameter in an Update Page action in the conformconf page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Everybit Encrypted Contact Form: before 1.1 — fixed in 1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Everybit Encrypted Contact Form 1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63

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