CVE-2024-4870

HIGH

Frontend Registration - Contact Form 7 <5.1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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 (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2

EPSS 0.0047

EPSS Percentile 36.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-266

Status published

Products (1)

pokornydavid/Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 < 5.1

Published Jun 04, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026