Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2024-4870
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published June 3, 2024
Last Updated June 4, 2024
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.1 due to insufficient restriction on the '_cf7frr_' post meta. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to modify the default user role in the registration form settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug frontend-registration-contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1
Patched Version
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