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CVE-2024-4144: Simple Basic Contact Form <= 20240502 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: none known
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The Simple Basic Contact Form plugin for WordPress for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 20240502. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. The severity and exploitability depends on the functionality of other plugins installed in the environment.

Affected products

• Simple Basic Contact Form: through 20240502

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-basic-contact-form/trunk/simple-basic-contact-form.php#L543
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085036/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ded1944f-662d-4d25-8277-4b1dc63b2144?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-basic-contact-form/trunk/simple-basic-contact-form.php#L543
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085036/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ded1944f-662d-4d25-8277-4b1dc63b2144?source=cve

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