CVE-2026-111574: Redirection for Contact Form 7 cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability
high 7.5 published 2026-10-21
- Affected versions
- 2.2.7 up to (not including) 3.2.12
- Fixed in
- 3.2.12
- Latest version
- 3.2.14
- Severity
- High · CVSS 7.5
- Active installs
- 200,000+
- Type
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
- Interaction: It also needs someone on the site (often an admin) to click a link, open a page or submit a form the attacker prepared.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What to do now
- Update Redirection for Contact Form 7 to 3.2.12 or newer (the latest is 3.2.14): Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Redirection for Contact Form 7 issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get wpcf7-redirect --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
The Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 3.2.12 does not sanitise or escape submitted form data stored as lead entries before outputting it in the lead debug metabox, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store a malicious script that executes when a logged-in user views the entry with the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 3.2.12's debug mode enabled.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-111574 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/wpcf7-redirect (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.