CVE-2024-4870 (GCVE-0-2024-4870)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-04 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 20:55
VLAI?
Title
Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pokornydavid Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 Affected: * , ≤ 5.1 (semver)
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Credits
István Márton
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