Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension <= 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7
- Affected Version
<= 5.0.5- CVSS
- 6.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2025-63068
At a glance
CVE-2025-63068 is a medium-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the DTX WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.0.5. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Najib Sinjari.
Vulnerability Overview
The The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Reaching this weakness in DTX <= 5.0.5 takes no account at all. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.
The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for DTX yet, so installs running <= 5.0.5 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Scanner
- Login Security
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7
- 6.4Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension <= 2.0.3 Stored XSS
- 6.1Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension < 2.0.3 Reflected XSS
- 4.4CVE-2026-5116: Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension Stored XSS
CVE-2026-5116 - 4.3CVE-2024-56218: Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension <= 5.0.1 CSRF
CVE-2024-56218 - 4.3CVE-2024-10084: Contact Form 7 Information Disclosure
CVE-2024-10084 - 4.3CVE-2023-6630: Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension <= 4.1.0 IDOR
CVE-2023-6630
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