CVE-2025-8280CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2025-8280

Medium · published September 12, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00202 · 9.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2025-09-12T10:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
iambriansreed/contact_form_7_recaptcha≤ 1.2.0—
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 06:00Z
    Contact Form 7 reCAPTCHA <= 1.2.0 - Reflected XSS via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
    cvelistv5