WordPress plugin · simple-basic-contact-form
Is Simple Basic Contact Form safe?
Closed. Replace it.
wordpress.org closed it on May 27, 2026 (security issue), so it gets no more security fixes, and 5 flaws are on record. If your site runs it, move to a maintained alternative.
- Flaws on record
- 5
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
Every recorded flaw
- Jun 23, 2026Simple Basic Contact Form: Does not escape user-supplied input before reflecting it into the contact form output on validation errorsCVE-2026-8172 · affects up to 20250114 · reported by WPScanHigh 7.1
- May 15, 2025Simple Basic Contact Form: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-12716 · fixed in 20250114 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- May 14, 2024Simple Basic Contact Form plugin for: Arbitrary shortcode executionCVE-2024-4144 · affects up to 20240502 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.5
- May 14, 2024Simple Basic Contact Form: Reflected Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-4150 · affects up to 20221201 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.1
- Dec 26, 2022Simple Basic Contact Form: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2022-4226 · fixed in 20221201 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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