Contact Form 7: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Contact Form 7 is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Contact Form 7
- Plugin slug
contact-form-7- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 22, 2019
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Aug 22, 2019 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.
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.
Technical description
The contact-form-7 plugin before 5.0.4 for WordPress has privilege escalation because of capability_type mishandling in register_post_type.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H