CVE-2014-7139 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Form DB (aka CFDB and contact-form-7-to-database-extension) plugin before 2.8.16 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form or (2) enc parameter in the CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder page to wp-admin/admin.php

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Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Form DB (aka CFDB and contact-form-7-to-database-extension) plugin before 2.8.16 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form or (2) enc parameter in the CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder page to wp-admin/admin.php

Published Oct 10, 2014

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.04%

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Contact Form DB (aka CFDB and contact-form-7-to-database-extension) plugin before 2.8.16 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form or (2) enc parameter in the CF7DBPluginShortCodeBuilder page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.04% 0.02041

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02041

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.04% (0.02041)	80.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.04% (0.02041)	78.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.28% (0.00280)	48.43th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	3.42% (0.03422)	78.91th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 24, 2025	0.28% (0.00280)	48.46th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 23, 2025	1.29% (0.01291)	75.54th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.28% (0.00280)	49.33th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.33% (0.00329)	71.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.47% (0.00467)	74.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.47% (0.00467)	71.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (5)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128625/WordPress-Contact-Form-DB-2.8.13-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533642/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70374
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/changelog
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23233
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128625/WordPress-Contact-Form-DB-2.8.13-Cross-Site-Scripting.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533642/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70374		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/changelog		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23233		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 10, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Sep 22, 2014

Link CVE-2014-7139

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-7139

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-7139