VS Contact Form

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Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 19.0 Updated HTML structure Minor changes in code 19.0
2. — Version 18.9 Fix: strip backslashes from emails 18.9
3. — Version 18.8 Fix: PHP session related error on Site Health page New: setting to ignore form submissions if minimum time is not reached 18.8
4. — Version 18.7 Sum captcha: replaced WP transient with PHP session In rare cases transients were flooding the database PHP sessions last until the browser is closed So especially for high traffic websites this is a better approach 18.7
5. — Version 18.6 Minor changes in code 18.6
6. — Version 18.5 Added support for ClassicPress The block will only load in WP 6.3 and higher Reverted the “Requires at least” version to 6.0 18.5

4 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 VS Contact Form <= 14.7 - CAPTCHA Bypass ↗
   2024-03-29 CVE-2024-30540 Guessable CAPTCHA Affects <= 14.7 Patched in 14.8
2. Medium · 5.3 VS Contact Form <= 13.9 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2023-09-05 CVE-2023-41862 Missing Authorization Affects <= 13.9 Patched in 14.0
3. Medium · 6.1 VS Contact Form <= 11.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-05-25 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 11.5 Patched in 11.6
4. High · 7.2 Very Simple Contact Form <= 11.5 - Captcha Bypass ↗
   2022-05-22 CVE-2022-1801 Guessable CAPTCHA Affects <= 11.5 Patched in 11.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 108 languages, 5 at 90% or more

Plus 84 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-13 8K+ → 7K+ down after 4 days in tier
2. 2026-02-09 7K+ → 8K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-02-07 8K+ → 7K+ down after 292 days in tier
4. 2025-04-21 9K+ → 8K+ down after 271 days in tier
5. 2024-07-24 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-07-23 9K+ → 10K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2024-07-21 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Contact Form Email 8K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags A
• Contact Form Query 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B
• C Contact Form 7 add confirm 50K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
• Gravity PDF 20K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Contact Form Clean and Simple 7K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• Multifile Upload Field for Contact Form 7 5K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D

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VS Contact Form: 7K+ active installs, 4.8★ (50 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/very-simple-contact-form