CVE-2026-6455 | WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler <= 3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion via 'contact_form' Parameter

The WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Arbitrary File Deletion via SQL Injection and PHP Object Injection in versions up to and including 3.0. This is due to a missing nonce verification in the process_bulk_action() function, the nonce check is only executed when _wpnonce is present in the POST body, allowing it to be trivially bypassed by omitting the field, combined with the use of an unsanitized, unparameterized user-supplied value in a numeric SQL context (WHERE ID = $ID) and the unsafe deserialization of the query result's post_content field. An attacker can craft a CSRF page that tricks a logged-in administrator into triggering a UNION-based SQL injection payload (using CHAR() to avoid esc_sql quote-escaping) that returns a malicious serialized PHP array as post_content; upon deserialization, array values associated with keys containing 'ys_cfdbh_file' are used as file paths appended to the uploads directory path without any path traversal validation, and then passed to wp_delete_file(), allowing the attacker to delete arbitrary files on the server (e.g., wp-config.php, system files).

Published: 2026-05-28 Last update: 2026-05-28 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-6455 is rated Low Risk (36.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.04%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-6455

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-28 0.04%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-6455

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.1 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.8 5.2 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-6455

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-6455

GHSA-xf5m-7grh-3gvm · Severity: high — The WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery...

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-6455

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2026-6455

URL Tags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3520240%40wp-contact-form-7-db-handler&new=3520240%40wp-contact-form-7-db-handler&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96cdba03-7385-4374-915d-061be0276a95?source=cve
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