What is CVE-2024-11273?

CVE-2024-11273 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpforms Contact Form, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-11273?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Wpforms Contact Form

CVE-2024-11273

The Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms WordPress plugin before 2.6.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-03-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Wpforms Contact Form
Contact Form & Smtp Plugin For WordPress By Pirateforms — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/d1049a83-1298-4c8c-aeac-0055110d38fb/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-11273?: CVE-2024-11273 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpforms Contact Form, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-11273?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.