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CVE-2025-6740: Contact Form 7 Database Addon <= 1.3.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via tmpD Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Contact Form 7 Database Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tmpD’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• arshidkv12 Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7: before 1.3.2 — fixed in 1.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: arshidkv12 Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7 1.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-cfdb7/tags/1.3.1/contact-form-cfdb-7.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3320134/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-cfdb7/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/014803c8-3319-48ad-98c7-d1f372d37ff2?source=cve

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