CVE-2022-1801: Very Simple Contact Form Project Very Simple Contact Form

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Very Simple Contact Form WordPress plugin before 11.6 exposes the solution to the captcha in the rendered contact form, both as hidden input fields and as plain text in the page, making it very easy for bots to bypass the captcha check, rendering the page a likely target for spam bots.

Affected products

• Very Simple Contact Form Project Very Simple Contact Form: before 11.6 (fixed in 11.6)

Published 2022-06-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.