CVE-2024-4870
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.47% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.