What is CVE-2025-12696?

CVE-2025-12696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Helloleads Crm Form Shortcode, classified under CWE-862 MISSING AUTHORIZATION. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-12-14.

How severe is CVE-2025-12696?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Helloleads Crm Form Shortcode

CVE-2025-12696

The HelloLeads CRM Form Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF check when resetting its settings, allowing unauthenticated users to reset them

Published 2025-12-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Helloleads Crm Form Shortcode — versions 0

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/e552dfc8-c6e1-4605-bc36-30dc4066eaea/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-12696?: CVE-2025-12696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Helloleads Crm Form Shortcode, classified under CWE-862 MISSING AUTHORIZATION. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-12-14.
How severe is CVE-2025-12696?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.