Contact Form by ContactMetrics Security & Risk Analysis

wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-by-contactmetrics

This plugin allows you to create a simple, elegant, contact form in minutes.

10 active installs v1.5 PHP + WP 2.9+ Updated Jun 6, 2014
contactcontact-formcontact-form-plugincontact-us-formcontacts
85
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Contact Form by ContactMetrics Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 85/100

Contact Form by ContactMetrics has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 11yr ago
Risk Assessment

The plugin 'contact-form-by-contactmetrics' v1.5 exhibits a mixed security posture. On the positive side, it has a very small attack surface, with no known vulnerabilities in its history and no dangerous functions or external HTTP requests. It also demonstrates good practice by utilizing prepared statements for all its SQL queries. However, there are significant concerns regarding output escaping. The analysis indicates that 100% of the 20 identified output points are not properly escaped, which presents a high risk for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Additionally, the taint analysis revealed two flows with unsanitized paths, although these were not classified as critical or high severity. The lack of nonce checks and capability checks also raises concerns about the integrity and authorization of operations, especially if the attack surface were to expand in future versions.

Key Concerns

  • All output unescaped
  • Two flows with unsanitized paths
  • Zero nonce checks
  • Zero capability checks
Vulnerabilities
None known

Contact Form by ContactMetrics Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 17, 2026

Contact Form by ContactMetrics Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
20
0 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

0% escaped20 total outputs
Data Flows
2 unsanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows2 with unsanitized paths
form_html (contact-form-contactmetrics.php:213)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Contact Form by ContactMetrics Attack Surface

Entry Points1
Unprotected0

Shortcodes 1

[contactmetrics] contact-form-contactmetrics.php:200
WordPress Hooks 3
actionadmin_menucontact-form-contactmetrics.php:57
actionwp_headcontact-form-contactmetrics.php:65
actioninitcontact-form-contactmetrics.php:204
Maintenance & Trust

Contact Form by ContactMetrics Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested3.9.40
Last updatedJun 6, 2014
PHP min version
Downloads8K

Community Trust

Rating100/100
Number of ratings1
Active installs10
Developer Profile

Contact Form by ContactMetrics Developer Profile

contactmetrics

1 plugin · 10 total installs

84
trust score
Avg Security Score
85/100
Avg Patch Time
30 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Contact Form by ContactMetrics

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/favicon.gif/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/logo.png/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/example.png/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/metrics_example.png/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/add-site.png/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/new_form.png/contact-form-by-contactmetrics/assets/images/customize_form.png

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
textarea
Data Attributes
id="cm_email"name="Email_destination"id="cm_css"name="Css"id="upgrade"id="standard_version"+7 more
JS Globals
jQuery
Shortcode Output
[contactmetrics]
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Contact Form by ContactMetrics