CVE-2025-54020
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affects Erik AntiSpam for Contact Form 7 plugin versions through 0.6.3. The vulnerability was discovered and reported on July 4, 2025, and was officially published on July 16, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered low to medium severity, affecting both integrity and availability of the system (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 0.6.4 or later to remediate this vulnerability. The security issue has been patched in the latest release (Patchstack).

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