MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2015-6965

Contact Form Generator vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
3.0%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Contact Form Generator plugin 2.0.1 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create a field, (2) update a field, (3) delete a field, (4) create a form, (5) update a form, (6) delete a form, (7) create a template, (8) update a template, (9) delete a template, or (10) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted request to the cfg_forms page in wp-admin/admin.php.
Affected vendor
Creative Solutions
Affected product
Contact Form Generator
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2015-09-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-6965

  • Confirm whether Creative Solutions Contact Form Generator is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-6965.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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