{"id":1611,"date":"2025-07-28T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/critical-flaws-in-wordpress-plugin-leave-10000-sites-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:55:26","slug":"critical-flaws-in-wordpress-plugin-leave-10000-sites-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/critical-flaws-in-wordpress-plugin-leave-10000-sites-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Flaws in WordPress Plugin Leave 10,000 Sites Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cphContent_pnlArticleBody\" data-layout-id=\"2\" data-edit-folder-name=\"text\" data-index=\"0\">\n<p>More than 10,000 WordPress sites have been left vulnerable to full site takeover due to three critical security flaws discovered in the <em>HT Contact Form Widget for Elementor Page Builder &#038; Gutenberg Blocks &#038; Form Builder<\/em> plugin.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities, which include Arbitrary File Upload, Arbitrary File Deletion and Arbitrary File Move, allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute malicious code, delete essential files or move them to new locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a new advisory by Wordfence, all three issues made remote code execution and full site compromise possible.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Flaws Could Allow Complete Site Takeover<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The most severe of the three, CVE-2025-7340, carried a CVSS score of 9.8. It allowed attackers to upload any file type (including executable PHP scripts) due to a lack of validation in the plugin&#8217;s temp_file_upload() function. These files were stored in public directories, enabling direct access and execution.<\/p>\n<p>The second flaw, CVE-2025-7341, allowed arbitrary file deletion via the temp_file_delete() function. Attackers could delete the wp-config.php file, placing the site into setup mode and enabling full control if pointed to a new database.<\/p>\n<p>A third vulnerability, CVE-2025-7360, involved arbitrary file moving using the handle_files_upload() function. This function failed to sanitize file names properly, letting attackers move critical files and trigger the same kind of compromise as deletion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more on WordPress plugin security risks: Vulnerability in Chaty Pro Plugin Exposes 18,000 WordPress Sites<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Recommended Action for Site Owners<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The issues were disclosed to Wordfence through its bug bounty program by researchers vgo0 and Phat RiO. Wordfence contacted plugin developer HasTech IT on July 8. A patch was released just five days later, on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We encourage WordPress users to verify that their sites are updated to the latest patched version of HT Contact Form as soon as possible considering the critical nature of these vulnerabilities,&#8221; Wordfence said.<\/p>\n<p>To stay protected, the company also advised users to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Keep plugins and themes updated<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Apply vendor patches promptly<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Use a security solution with file upload and directory traversal protections<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If you know someone who uses this plugin on their site, we recommend sharing this advisory with them to ensure their site remains secure, as these vulnerabilities pose a significant risk,&#8221; Wordfence concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 WordPress sites have been left vulnerable to full site takeover due to three critical security flaws discovered in the HT Contact Form Widget for Elementor Page Builder &amp; Gutenberg Blocks &amp; Form Builder plugin. The vulnerabilities, which include Arbitrary File Upload, Arbitrary File Deletion and Arbitrary File Move, allowed unauthenticated attackers to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"large":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"morenews-featured":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"morenews-large":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"morenews-medium":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878.jpg",300,300,false],"crawlomatic_preview_image":["http:\/\/ft365.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1611-7df65a33-00f8-4e6c-a5a0-e079fc51b878-146x146.jpg",146,146,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"henry","author_link":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/author\/henry\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ft365.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}