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Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7: Accessible Defaults
by Joe Dolson · 5,000+ active installs · Checked 3 Nov 2026
Healthy

Healthy: maintained, last release 25 Oct 2026, 2 releases in 24 months, no unpatched vulnerabilities.

91/ 100 Canary Score
Sub-scores for Contact Form 7
Ownership100
Maintenance100
Security100
Support70
Reputation70

How the score works

Quick answers

Is Contact Form 7 still maintained?
Yes. Last release 25 Oct 2026, 2 releases in the last 24 months. 25 Oct 2026 · wordpress.org
Who owns Contact Form 7, and has it changed hands?
No change recorded. Main committer joedolson since Mar 2015. 3 Nov 2026 · SVN log
Was Contact Form 7 removed from wordpress.org?
No. Listed on wordpress.org as of 3 Nov 2026. 3 Nov 2026 · wordpress.org
Is Contact Form 7 safe?
No known vulnerabilities on record. 3 Nov 2026 · Wordfence Intelligence
Is the latest Contact Form 7 update safe to install?
No ownership change before 1.1.10. No one-star spike after it. 25 Oct 2026 · Release history

Active signals

Facts we detected, with links to the source.

No open risk signals. Signals appear here when we detect an ownership change, closure, vulnerability or decline.

Ownership timeline

Who commits to the plugin's code on wordpress.org, over time.

Committers and their active periods
joedolson14 Mar 2015 to 25 Oct 2026, 32 commits

1 committer recorded. No ownership change since 2015.

Maintenance

Last release
9 days ago
Releases, 24 months
2
Tested up to
7.1 current
Requires PHP
not stated supported 8.2+
Releases per quarter
Releases per quarter for Contact Form 7
Q1 20240
Q2 20240
Q3 20240
Q4 20240
Q1 20250
Q2 20251
Q3 20250
Q4 20250
Q1 20260
Q2 20260
Q3 20260
Q4 20261

Last release 25 Oct 2026. Tested with WordPress 7.1 (current).

Reputation

Last 90 days: no reviews. Lifetime: 5.0.

Rating distribution
5 star6
4 star0
3 star0
2 star0
1 star0

Security record

No published vulnerabilities on record for this plugin.

Sources: Wordfence Intelligence, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, readme changelogs.

Support

Support history appears after our first snapshots of the forum counts.

Momentum

5,000+ active installs. History builds with each weekly snapshot.

Weekly downloads, last 27 weeks
Weekly downloads for Contact Form 7
4 May 202634
11 May 202665
18 May 202663
25 May 2026116
1 Jun 202677
8 Jun 202672
15 Jun 202657
22 Jun 202671
29 Jun 202663
6 Jul 202662
13 Jul 202697
20 Jul 202696
27 Jul 202673
3 Aug 2026107
10 Aug 202698
17 Aug 2026101
24 Aug 202666
31 Aug 2026108
7 Sep 202669
14 Sep 202696
21 Sep 2026106
28 Sep 2026110
5 Oct 2026104
12 Oct 202698
19 Oct 2026227
26 Oct 20262,133
2 Nov 202676

Weekly downloads over the last 4 weeks are 285% above the 27-week average.

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Facts

Version1.1.10
AuthorJoe Dolson
Added14 Mar 2015
Last updated25 Oct 2026
Active installs5,000+
Requires WordPress6.6
Tested up to7.1.4
Requires PHPnot stated
CategoryForms & Data Collection > Contact Forms
Tagsa11y, wcag, wpcf7, accessibility, contact form 7

Other plugins by this author: WP Accessibility, My Calendar - Accessible Event Manager, XPoster - Share to Bluesky and Mastodon, My Tickets - Accessible Event Ticketing, Able Player, accessible HTML5 media player

Questions

Is Contact Form 7 still maintained?

Yes. Last release 25 Oct 2026, 2 releases in the last 24 months.

Who owns Contact Form 7, and has it changed hands?

No change recorded. Main committer joedolson since Mar 2015.

Was Contact Form 7 removed from wordpress.org?

No. Listed on wordpress.org as of 3 Nov 2026.

Is Contact Form 7 safe?

No known vulnerabilities on record.

Is the latest Contact Form 7 update safe to install?

No ownership change before 1.1.10. No one-star spike after it.

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