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CVE-2026-120407VulnerabilityPublished

The Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 6.2.5 does not restrict which user properties a form field's default value

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-120407· High

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 6.2.5 soon.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC

Severity
High

Rated High by Threat Radar's AI analysis · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
Patch
Available – fixed in 6.2.5

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 24 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade Contact Form 7 (WordPress plugin) to 6.2.5.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Contact Form 7Affected
  • <6.2.5
Fixed in
  • 6.2.5

AI-suggested

Upgrade Contact Form 7 to version 6.2.5 or later, where this issue is fixed.

Description

A vulnerability in the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before version 6.2.5 allows users with Editor role or higher to access sensitive user information. Specifically, these users can obtain password hashes and sensitive user metadata, including two-factor authentication secrets, of higher-privileged users such as administrators by exploiting the form field's default value population mechanism.

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