What is CVE-2025-6740?

CVE-2025-6740 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arshidkv12 Database Addon For Contact Form 7 – Cfdb7, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-07-04.

How severe is CVE-2025-6740?

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

XSS in Arshidkv12 Database Addon For Contact Form 7 – Cfdb7

CVE-2025-6740

The Contact Form 7 Database Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tmpD’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (17.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product, Release Notes)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-6740?: CVE-2025-6740 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arshidkv12 Database Addon For Contact Form 7 – Cfdb7, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-07-04.
How severe is CVE-2025-6740?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.