CVE-2026-5116 PUBLISHED

Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension <= 5.0.5 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 29.03.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.5. This is due to insufficient output escaping on form shortcode keys displayed in the admin "Scan Forms for Post Meta and User Data Keys" page. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Editor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when an Administrator runs the scan feature.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.4

Product Status

Vendor sevenspark
Product DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.0.5 (incl.)

Credits

  • SATYARTH PRAKASH (XoxoL33t) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE