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GHSA-XW8C-XM8R-XHHF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-04 03:30 – Updated: 2024-06-04 03:30

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-04 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 20:55

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

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fronte…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	pokornydavid	Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7	Affected: * , ≤ 5.1 (semver)

Credits

István Márton

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-XW8C-XM8R-XHHF

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

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