Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension: Sensitive information exposure
Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension
- Plugin slug
contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 05, 2024
This CVE was published Nov 05, 2024 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Basic Information Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5 via the CF7_get_post_var shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract the titles and text contents of private and password-protected posts, they do not own.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N