WPB Popup for Contact Form 7 – Showing The Contact Form 7 Popup on Button Click – CF7 Popup <= 1.7.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via wpb_pcf_fire_contact_form

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-11038
CVSS High (7.3)
Publicly Published November 18, 2024
Last Updated November 19, 2024
Researcher Arkadiusz Hydzik
Description

The The WPB Popup for Contact Form 7 – Showing The Contact Form 7 Popup on Button Click – CF7 Popup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via wpb_pcf_fire_contact_form AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpb-popup-for-contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.5
Patched Version
  • 1.7.6
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