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CVE-2025-8280

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
12/09/2025
Last modified:
16/03/2026

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x
5.80
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:iambriansreed:contact_form_7_recaptcha:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1.2.0 (including)

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