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Contact Form by Supsystic CVE-2025-15705

| EUVDEUVD-2025-211198 LOW
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-10-25 WPScan GHSA-3f2v-jx9m-xwjg
3.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: WPScan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as site admin with form-editor access
  2. Delivery
    Inject script into form name field
  3. Exploit
    Store malicious form
  4. Execution
    Victim (super admin) views form
  5. Impact
    Script executes in victim browser session

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Output encoding, context-aware escaping
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Initial Access, Execution

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an authenticated account with access to the Contact Form by Supsystic form editor (PR:H), the ability to set a form name, and a second user who subsequently views that form (UI:R) for the stored payload to execute - it is not remote-unauthenticated. The elevated-impact case is specifically limited to WordPress multisite installations, where site administrators do not hold the unfiltered_html capability; there, injecting script crosses a privilege boundary toward higher-trust users. On single-site installations, form-editor users typically already possess unfiltered_html, so no meaningful boundary is crossed. The fix is upgrading to Contact Form by Supsystic 1.8.0 or later, which the vendor has made available.

Impact

This is a low-severity, authenticated stored XSS (CVSS 3.1 base 3.5, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) that is not a broad-fleet priority. The signals are internally consistent and all point the same way: PR:H confirms the attacker must already hold a privileged role (access to the form editor), UI:R confirms a second user must view the affected form for the script to fire, and C:L/I:L/A:N reflect the limited impact typical of script injection in another user's session. EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile), indicating no meaningful mass-exploitation pressure, and the vuln.today decision label is 'monitor' - not an act-now item. The flaw is NOT in CISA KEV, so there is no public attack-chain weaponization pressure: no public exploit identified at time of analysis as working exploit code, though a public PoC/advisory reference exists at WPScan (see conditions below). The one genuinely interesting nuance, stated by the description rather than any score, is the multisite privilege-boundary crossing: because site administrators on multisite do not hold unfiltered_html, a lower-trust site admin can inject script that executes for higher-trust users (e.g. super admin), which is the main reason this merits any attention beyond routine patching. On single-site installs where the form editor is held by trusted admins who already have unfiltered_html, the practical security boundary crossed is minimal.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

On a WordPress multisite install, an authenticated site administrator (who lacks the unfiltered_html capability) uses the Contact Form by Supsystic form editor to create or rename a form, embedding a malicious script in the form name. When a higher-privileged user such as a network/super admin later views that form, the stored script executes in their browser session. A public PoC reference exists at WPScan but is not verified as working exploit code, and the AC:L/UI:R profile means exploitation is simple but requires that a victim actually open the affected form.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 26, 2026

Stored cross-site scripting in the Contact Form by Supsystic WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 lets users with access to the form editor save a form name containing script that executes when another user views that form. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 3.5) requires a high-privileged authenticated account and victim interaction, so this is not remote-unauthenticated exploitation. The meaningful boundary crossing is limited to WordPress multisite, where administrators lack the unfiltered_html capability; a public PoC reference exists but is not verified as working exploit code, EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile), the issue is not in CISA KEV, and the vendor has released a fix in 1.8.0.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade Contact Form by Supsystic to 1.8.0 or later, which the vendor has made available and which removes the flaw by sanitising and escaping the form name. Sites that cannot update immediately should restrict form-editor access to accounts that already hold unfiltered_html, and on multisite networks should review which roles can edit forms, since administrators there lack unfiltered_html and are the users most exposed to injected script; note that role restriction limits exposure to new payloads but does not clean form names already stored with injected markup, so existing form names should be reviewed and cleared. Advisory and version details are at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7b592632-614d-4792-8372-a38e667e547b/ and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15705. Given the low severity (CVSS 3.5), EPSS of 0.15% (4th percentile), no CISA KEV listing and a priority label of monitor, remediation can follow normal patch-cycle scheduling rather than emergency handling.

Affected VersionsENISA

Contact Form by Supsystic 0 <1.8.0

Affected Packages

euvd contact_form_by_supsystic fix: 1.8.0

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The flaw is a CWE-79 improper neutralization of user input during web page generation (stored/persistent XSS) in the form-name handling of the Contact Form by Supsystic plugin. The plugin fails to sanitise and escape the form name before it is stored and later rendered to a viewing user, so markup supplied at save time is emitted into the page served to the next viewer. Because the payload is persisted rather than reflected, every subsequent view of the affected form is a delivery opportunity. The privilege boundary is normally minimal on single-site WordPress because form-editor users commonly already hold the unfiltered_html capability and can post unfiltered markup directly; the security-relevant case is multisite, where administrators do not have unfiltered_html and script injected by a lower-trust editor therefore reaches a higher-trust user. Affected CPE data records the product version range as all versions before 1.8.0 (EUVD: 0 < 1.8.0); the enumeration is relative to a vendor/plugin slug not yet normalized, so the affected set should be confirmed against the vendor's own version listing.

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Severity by source

Vendor (WPScan) PRIMARY 3.5 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 3.5 LOW

Attacker needs privileged form-editor access (PR:H) and a victim must view the form (UI:R); stored XSS yields limited C/I impact and no availability loss.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).

CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 26, 2026 - 11:22 NVD
3.5 (LOW)
Patch available
Oct 25, 2026 - 07:00 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 25, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
LOW 3.5
CVE Published
Oct 25, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

The Contact Form by Supsystic WordPress plugin before 1.8.0 does not sanitise and escape a form name, allowing users with access to the form editor to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when another user views the form. On multisite installations, where administrators do not hold the unfiltered_html capability, this crosses a privilege boundary.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 96% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WordPress contact-form plugin, widely but not universally deployed
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +18
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Cross-Site Scripting occurs when an application accepts untrusted data and sends it to a web browser without proper validation or encoding.

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