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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-9944
CVE-2025-9944:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Professional Contact Form plugin for WordPress has been identified with a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9944. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.0.0, and was discovered and reported by security researcher Nabil Irawan. The vulnerability was officially published to the CVE List on September 27, 2025 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from missing or incorrect nonce validation in the watchforcontactformsubmit function. The severity of this vulnerability has been assessed with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires network access and user interaction but no privileges, resulting in low impact to integrity (Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger test email sending through forged requests, provided they can successfully trick a site administrator into performing specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link (NVD).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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