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Contact Form Supsystic EUVDEUVD-2026-60793

| CVE-2026-73378 HIGH
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
2026-08-18 Patchstack GHSA-pr7v-7wv9-4xjq
7.1
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Patchstack
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Attack ChainAIDerived

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

  1. Recon
    Identify WordPress site with vulnerable plugin
  2. Delivery
    Craft XSS payload in form field
  3. Exploit
    Submit unauthenticated contact form
  4. Install
    Plugin stores or reflects unsanitized input
  5. C2
    Victim loads affected page
  6. Execute
    Malicious script executes in victim browser
  7. Impact
    Session token or credential exfiltrated

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

No authentication is required to submit input to the contact form (confirmed by PR:N in the CVSS vector). However, exploitation requires that a victim user (site visitor, editor, or administrator) subsequently loads a page rendering the malicious input, as indicated by UI:R in the CVSS vector. Limiting factors include: the target WordPress site must have the Contact Form by Supsystic plugin installed and active in a version prior to 1.10.0; a real user must interact with or navigate to the page containing the injected content before the script executes; and the attacker cannot directly control when or whether a victim will trigger the payload. The attack does not require any non-default configuration of the plugin - any site with a publicly accessible contact form is exposed.

Impact

The CVSS 7.1 score is driven by a favorable-to-attacker combination of network accessibility, low complexity, and no required privileges (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N), moderated by the need for victim interaction (UI:R) and relatively low individual impact metrics (C:L/I:L/A:L). No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or confirmed proof-of-concept code is referenced in the available intelligence, which collectively suggests this has not yet been observed in active, widespread exploitation campaigns. The A:L availability metric in the provided CVSS vector warrants scrutiny - traditional XSS does not directly impair service availability, and this metric may modestly inflate the composite score. That said, even a mid-sized municipal IT team in mielec running a public WordPress site with this plugin installed should treat the patch as near-term rather than deferrable, given the zero-privilege entry point and the real potential for session theft or phishing via script injection. The absence of KEV listing should not be read as safety: unauthenticated, network-reachable XSS in a publicly accessible contact form is a straightforward target for opportunistic attackers.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An unauthenticated attacker visits a WordPress site running Contact Form by Supsystic before version 1.10.0 and submits a contact form containing a crafted XSS payload in one of the input fields. The plugin stores or reflects the unsanitized input, and when a site visitor or administrator subsequently loads the affected page, the malicious script executes in their browser, potentially exfiltrating session cookies or WordPress nonces to an attacker-controlled server. No proof-of-concept code has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack pattern is well-understood and trivially reproducible for any attacker familiar with WordPress plugin XSS techniques.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Unauthenticated cross-site scripting in Contact Form by Supsystic WordPress plugin (all versions before 1.10.0) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the browsers of site visitors. The CVSS vector confirms a scope change (S:C), meaning the injected script executes in the victim's browser context rather than the server, enabling session hijacking, credential theft, or malicious redirects. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the zero-privilege entry point and WordPress deployment scale make this a meaningful patching priority.

RemediationAI

Update Contact Form by Supsystic to version 1.10.0 or later immediately; this is the vendor-released patch as documented in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/contact-form-by-supsystic/vulnerability/wordpress-contact-form-by-supsystic-plugin-1-10-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability. If immediate patching is not possible, consider deploying a Web Application Firewall with XSS filtering rules targeting the plugin's form submission endpoints - note that overly aggressive WAF rules may block legitimate form submissions and should be tested in audit mode first. As a more disruptive but effective interim control, deactivating the plugin entirely on public-facing pages eliminates the attack surface at the cost of losing the contact form functionality. Administrators should also audit server and application logs for anomalous or encoded payloads in form submission fields, which may indicate prior exploitation attempts.

Affected VersionsENISA

Contact Form by Supsystic n/a <1.10.0

Affected Packages

euvd contact_form_by_supsystic_n_a fix: 1.10.0

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected product is the Contact Form by Supsystic WordPress plugin, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:supsystic:contact_form_by_supsystic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) is the root cause class, indicating that user-supplied data submitted through the contact form is not properly sanitized or encoded before being rendered into HTML output. This classic XSS pattern in WordPress plugins typically manifests as either stored XSS (malicious input persisted to the database and served to all subsequent page viewers) or reflected XSS (malicious input echoed back in an HTTP response). The CVSS scope change (S:C) strongly suggests the impact crosses from the WordPress application context into the victim's browser environment, consistent with how XSS payload execution operates. The Patchstack advisory is the sole intelligence source, and the plugin's form-handling PHP code fails to apply sufficient output escaping.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Patchstack) PRIMARY 7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
vuln.today AI 6.1 MEDIUM

Network-reachable, no privileges needed, scope changes to victim browser; availability impact dropped to N as XSS does not directly impair service.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).

CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack

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

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Aug 18, 2026 - 15:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 18, 2026 - 14:00 cve.org
HIGH 7.1

DescriptionCVE.org

Unauthenticated Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Contact Form by Supsystic < 1.10.0 versions.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

The Contact Form by Supsystic WordPress plugin creates an unauthenticated vulnerability on your website that could compromise visitor credentials and sessions, affecting customer trust and exposing sensitive data. All versions before 1.10.0 are vulnerable, and no vendor patch is currently available, requiring immediate compensating controls to protect your brand and customer data. This represents a HIGH-severity risk to any organization using this popular WordPress plugin.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations include: deploying content security policy (CSP) headers to restrict inline script execution; configuring Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to block script injection attempts; disabling the plugin on non-critical sites; implementing strict input validation and output encoding on contact form submissions; enabling security response headers (X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, X-XSS-Protection); continuous monitoring for malicious activity targeting contact form endpoints; and evaluating alternative contact form plugins pending vendor patch release.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 85% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WordPress contact form plugin with broad SMB adoption
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 HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

36
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +36
PoC: 0
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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