CVE-2026-6455 json
WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler <= 3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion via 'contact_form' Parameter
published 2026-05-28 5 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-32736
- cvss
- 8.1
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
The WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Arbitrary File Deletion via SQL Injection and PHP Object Injection in versions up to and including 3.0. This is due to a missing nonce verification in the process_bulk_action() function, the nonce check is only executed when _wpnonce is present in the POST body, allowing it to be trivially bypassed by omitting the field, combined with the use of an unsanitized, unparameterized user-supplied value in a numeric SQL context (WHERE ID = $ID) and the unsafe deserialization of the query result's post_content field. An attacker can craft a CSRF page that tricks a logged-in administrator into triggering a UNION-based SQL injection payload (using CHAR() to avoid esc_sql quote-escaping) that returns a malicious serialized PHP array as post_content; upon deserialization, array values associated with keys containing 'ys_cfdbh_file' are used as file paths appended to the uploads directory path without any path traversal validation, and then passed to wp_delete_file(), allowing the attacker to delete arbitrary files on the server (e.g., wp-config.php, system files).
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 5 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
Affected products
- yudiz WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Technology feeds
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96cdba03-7385-4374-915d-061be0276a95?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3520240%40wp-contact-form-7-db-handler&new=3520240%40wp-contact
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-6455
- NVD CVE-2026-6455
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