PT-2025-23743 · WordPress · Wp Easy Contact

Muhammad Yudha · Published 2025-06-04 · Updated 2025-06-04 · CVE-2025-5539

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the emd mb meta shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For WP Easy Contact plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0.0, update to a version higher than 4.0.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the emd mb meta shortcode to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-5539

Affected Products

Wp Easy Contact

References · 7

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3296825%40wp-easy-contact&new=3296825%40wp-easy-contact&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5539 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5539 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvetracker/25364 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1930126390675861590 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f584a439-3373-441c-a73e-5931ae63e7ae?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1930172593069289612 · Twitter Post