CVE-2026-6455

WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler <= 3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion via 'contact_form' Parameter

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: May 28, 2026 at 06:45 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWP Contact Form 7 DB Handler

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The WP Contact Form 7 DB Handler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Arbitrary File Deletion via SQL Injection and PHP Object Injection in versions up to and including 3.0. This is due to a missing nonce verification in the process_bulk_action() function, the nonce check is only executed when _wpnonce is present in the POST body, allowing it to be trivially bypassed by omitting the field, combined with the use of an unsanitized, unparameterized user-supplied value in a numeric SQL context (WHERE ID = $ID) and the unsafe deserialization of the query result's post_content field. An attacker can craft a CSRF page that tricks a logged-in administrator into triggering a UNION-based SQL injection payload (using CHAR() to avoid esc_sql quote-escaping) that returns a malicious serialized PHP array as post_content; upon deserialization, array values associated with keys containing 'ys_cfdbh_file' are used as file paths appended to the uploads directory path without any path traversal validation, and then passed to wp_delete_file(), allowing the attacker to delete arbitrary files on the server (e.g., wp-config.php, system files).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 3.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.1HIGHWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-352

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