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CVE-2019-25145: Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms <= 2.5.1 - Unauthenticated HTML injection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML injection in the ‘public/class-pirateforms-public.php’ file in versions up to, and including, 2.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML in emails that could be used to phish unsuspecting victims.

Affected products

• smub Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms: through 2.5.1

References

• https://blog.nintechnet.com/html-injection-vulnerability-in-wordpress-pirate-forms-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e34c3f6-cc84-4e45-9948-6f7fd5cba8cd?source=cve
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/html-injection-vulnerability-in-wordpress-pirate-forms-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e34c3f6-cc84-4e45-9948-6f7fd5cba8cd?source=cve

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