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).
CVE-2026-6455
Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-28. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 8.1(medium)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity81% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 16%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 28, 2026
Last Modified
May 28, 2026
References (10)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/tags/3.0/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L589
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L605
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L607
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-contact-form-7-db-handler/trunk/include/form-inner-page-class.php#L615
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3520240%40wp-contact-form-7-db-handler&new=3520240%40wp-contact-form-7-db-handler&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96cdba03-7385-4374-915d-061be0276a95?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-6455(1)
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