Contact Form Email <= 1.3.72 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Form Management and Submission Data Access

Medium 5.4 CWE-862Fixed in 1.3.73
ID
WPSEC-2026-2925
Plugin
Contact Form Email (contact-form-to-email)
Affected
all versions before 1.3.73
Remediation
Update to 1.3.73 or later.
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862
Usage
Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-12
Attack surface
Contact Form Email on WPSec AttackSurface
Fix released
Published

Description

The Contact Form Email plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access via the plugin's Help and Referral admin submenu pages in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.72, due to these submenu pages being registered with the 'read' capability while the shared settings_page() callback performs no capability check and recognises the redirect-only pages by exact comparison of the raw 'page' parameter. A 'page' value with a trailing slash still loads the same submenu page but matches none of the redirect branches, so the request reaches the full admin interface, whose include files have no capability checks of their own. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view submitted messages and reports, and to create, rename, clone and delete contact forms and delete or import stored messages.

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