Redirection for Contact Form 7 <= 2.3.3 - Authenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2021-24281
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 20, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

In the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 2.3.4, any authenticated user, such as a subscriber, could use the delete_action_post AJAX action to delete any post on a target site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpcf7-redirect (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.4
Patched Version
  • 2.3.4
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