Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLocate public Contact Form 7 form
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DeliverySubmit form field with malicious script
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ExploitPayload stored unsanitized in database
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ExecutionAdmin opens Form Vibes entries view
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PersistScript executes in admin session
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ImpactHijack session or create rogue admin
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 that the target WordPress site runs Form Vibes (≤1.5.2) with the Contact Form 7 integration enabled and a publicly reachable CF7 form whose submissions are captured to the database - the injection is delivered through that CF7 form field, so a working CF7 form wired into Form Vibes is the concrete prerequisite. The attacker needs no authentication and no privileges (PR:N) to submit the payload. The practical limiting factor is that the stored script only executes when a privileged user (an administrator or operator with access to the Form Vibes entries/dashboard) subsequently views the captured submission; the payload is dormant until then, so sites where entries are never reviewed, or where the CF7 integration is disabled, are not exploitable in practice. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (7.2, High) reflects a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated injection with a scope change, consistent with stored XSS whose payload executes in the privileged admin context. One tension is worth flagging: the vector sets UI:N, yet stored XSS in an admin-only entries view realistically requires an administrator to open the submissions page for the payload to fire, so real-world exploitation is gated on that operator action even though the metric does not penalize it - this is Wordfence's standard scoring convention for stored XSS reachable by unauthenticated submitters. No EPSS score, KEV entry, or SSVC decision data was supplied, so exploitation-probability signals are absent; treat exploitation likelihood as unquantified rather than low. There is no evidence of active exploitation and no public POC referenced (no public exploit identified at time of analysis). Overall this is a genuine patch-promptly priority for internet-exposed WordPress sites running the plugin because it is unauthenticated and can lead to admin session/credential compromise, but impact is bounded (C:L/I:L, no availability impact) and contingent on an admin viewing malicious entries, making it high-but-not-critical rather than an emergency mass-exploitation scenario. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker submits a public Contact Form 7 form on a site running Form Vibes, placing a JavaScript payload (for example an event-handler attribute or script tag) into a form field. Form Vibes stores the unsanitized value, and when a site administrator later opens the Form Vibes submissions view the payload executes in their authenticated browser session, enabling session/cookie theft, creation of a rogue admin account, or other actions in the admin context. No authentication is required to plant the payload, and no public POC is currently referenced. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 11, 2026
Stored cross-site scripting in the Form Vibes - Database Manager for Forms WordPress plugin (all versions through 1.5.2) lets unauthenticated attackers persist malicious JavaScript by submitting a crafted Contact Form 7 field, which the plugin stores and later renders unescaped in the WordPress admin entries view. Because sanitization and output escaping are both insufficient, the injected script executes in the browser of any user (typically a logged-in administrator) who opens the captured submissions. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the unauthenticated, no-privilege injection vector combined with scope-changing impact makes it a practical account-takeover risk for exposed sites.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patched version is stated in the available data - all versions up to and including 1.5.2 are affected - so no fixed release number can be confirmed; a WordPress.org changeset (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3599917%40form-vibes&new=3597349%40form-vibes) is referenced and may correspond to an upstream fix, but a tagged patched version is not independently confirmed. Administrators should monitor the plugin page and the Wordfence advisory (https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c6716a5d-48ed-4735-b765-a7606ea401d0?source=cve) and upgrade to the first release above 1.5.2 as soon as it is published. Until a confirmed patched version exists, compensating controls include deploying a WAF rule (Wordfence or equivalent) to filter script tags and HTML in Contact Form 7 submissions, restricting or IP-allowlisting access to the WordPress admin/Form Vibes entries screens so submissions are only viewed from trusted contexts, and - if CF7-to-database capture is not business-critical - temporarily disabling the Form Vibes CF7 integration or deactivating the plugin, accepting the trade-off that captured entries will no longer be recorded. Reviewing and purging suspicious already-stored entries before an admin opens them further reduces the trigger window.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is Form Vibes, a WordPress plugin (vendor WP Vibes, CPE cpe:2.3:a:wpvibes:form_vibes_...) that captures form submissions from Contact Form 7 and Elementor into the WordPress database for later viewing in the admin dashboard. The root cause is CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation): field data arriving from a public-facing Contact Form 7 submission is written to the database without adequate sanitization and then emitted into the admin entries UI without output escaping. The referenced source paths - inc/integrations/cf7.php (CF7 capture at line 126), inc/integrations/base.php (line 141), and the front-end assets/dist/js/submission.js - indicate the capture-and-render pipeline where untrusted form-field content is trusted on output. This is a classic second-order/stored XSS: the payload is delivered through the normal form-submission path and only fires later when an operator opens the stored entry.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated public submission gives PR:N/AV:N/AC:L, but the stored payload only fires when an admin views entries, so UI:R; scope change (S:C) as script runs in the admin browser context with limited C/I impact and no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The Form Vibes - Database Manager for Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Contact Form 7 Form Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2 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.
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Executive ViewAI
The Form Vibes WordPress plugin (versions through 1.5.2) enables unauthenticated attackers to inject persistent malicious code through contact form submissions that executes in administrator browsers when submissions are reviewed, creating a direct vector for administrator account compromise and site control. Any WordPress deployment running this plugin is immediately exposed. Urgent action is required to prevent administrative credential theft and unauthorized site modification.
Disable plugin immediately. Interim mitigations: restrict WordPress admin dashboard access to trusted IP ranges at firewall/WAF layer; enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all administrator accounts; implement Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to prevent inline script execution; enable real-time monitoring of administrator login events and account modifications; maintain recent offline database backup; audit file permissions on wp-content/plugins directory to prevent unauthorized plugin modifications.
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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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