# CVE-2024-11273: Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms < 2.6.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions in multisite setups.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 25 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qgrj-c4rv-c2r5

## What is CVE-2024-11273?

CVE-2024-11273 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms, published on 25 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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).

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11273?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpforms Contact Form.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-11273?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11273 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-11273 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-11273 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms

- [CVE-2019-25145](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-25145/): Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms <= 2.5.1 - Unauthenticated HTML injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2023-30500](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-30500/): WordPress WPForms plugins - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 5.8)
- [CVE-2020-10385](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-10385/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-11273 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-11273 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms, published on 25 Mar 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-11273 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11273/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11273/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-11273
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11273
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11273

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11273/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.