WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2014-2265 Modified

Contact Form 7: A security weakness

Contact Form 7 is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 5.0 CVSS · cve@mitre.org
NVD score 5.0 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Contact Form 7
Plugin slug
contact-form-7
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Mar 14, 2014
Weakness
CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

This CVE was published Mar 14, 2014 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Contact Form 7 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.

Source record

Technical description

Rock Lobster Contact Form 7 before 3.7.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA protection mechanism and submit arbitrary form data by omitting the _wpcf7_captcha_challenge_captcha-719 parameter.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources