CVE-2024-4144
Simple Basic Contact Form <= 20240502 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Simple Basic Contact Form plugin for WordPress for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 20240502. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. The severity and exploitability depends on the functionality of other plugins installed in the environment.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
wpkube · Simple Basic Contact Form
- affected ≤ 20240502
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ded1944f-662d-4d25-8277-4b1dc63b2144?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-basic-contact-form/trunk/simple-basic-contact-form.php#L543 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085036/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-4144)Record last updated .