What is CVE-2024-12716?

CVE-2024-12716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-12716?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form

CVE-2024-12716

The Simple Basic Contact Form WordPress plugin before 20250114 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)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wpkube Simple_basic_contact_form
Unknown Simple Basic Contact Form — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12716?: CVE-2024-12716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-12716?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.