{"id":"CVE-2020-35489","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-35489","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:31:18.935Z","title":"The contact-form-7 (aka Contact Form 7) plugin before 5.3.2 for WordPress allows Unrestricted File Upload and remote code execution because a filename may contain special characters.","description":"The contact-form-7 (aka Contact Form 7) plugin before 5.3.2 for WordPress allows Unrestricted File Upload and remote code execution because a filename may contain special characters.","published":"2020-12-17T19:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:13:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":10,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-434"],"affected":["rocklobster/contact form 7"],"epss":{"score":0.8928,"percentile":0.9978,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 89.3%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://contactform7.com/2020/12/17/contact-form-7-532/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#developers","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10508","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/plugin-exploit/contact-form-7-unrestricted-file-upload/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.jinsonvarghese.com/unrestricted-file-upload-in-contact-form-7/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://contactform7.com/2020/12/17/contact-form-7-532/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#developers","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10508","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/plugin-exploit/contact-form-7-unrestricted-file-upload/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.jinsonvarghese.com/unrestricted-file-upload-in-contact-form-7/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35489","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}