6.8
MEDIUM CVSS 2.0
CVE-2015-4010
WordPress Encrypted Contact Form CSRF Vulnerability
Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Encrypted Contact Form plugin before 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the iframe_url parameter in an Update Page action in the conformconf page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

INFO

Published Date :

June 9, 2015, 2:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2015-4010 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Everybit encrypted_contact_form
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2015-4010.

URL Resource
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/ Release Notes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ Patch Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992 Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/ Release Notes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ Patch Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992 Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-4010 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2015-4010 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2015-4010 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2015-4010 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2
    Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html
    Added Reference http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/
    Added Reference https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ Patch https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992 No Types Assigned https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992 Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:encrypted_contact_form_project:encrypted_contact_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (including) 1.0.4 OR *cpe:2.3:a:everybit:encrypted_contact_form:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.1
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded [Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry]
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 31, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132209/WordPress-Encrypted-Contact-Form-1.0.4-CSRF-XSS.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 07, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7992 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 28, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73433 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 23, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 No Types Assigned http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Exploit
    Changed Reference Type https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/ No Types Assigned https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1125443/ Release Notes
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Exploit http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Exploit
    Changed Reference Type https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Exploit
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 23, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142607790919348&w=2
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 25, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ No Types Assigned https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/ Exploit
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 20, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37264/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 10, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:encrypted_contact_form_project:encrypted_contact_form:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* (and previous)
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ No Types Assigned https://wordpress.org/plugins/encrypted-contact-form/changelog/ Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 No Types Assigned http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/63 Exploit
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/535699/100/0/threaded Exploit
    Added CWE CWE-352
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 10, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 6.8
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.35 }} 0.38%

score

0.79093

percentile