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CVE-2022-0404: Material Design for Contact Form 7 <= 2.6.4 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Settings Update leading to DoS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Material Design for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin through 2.6.4 does not check authorization or that the option mentioned in the notice param belongs to the plugin when processing requests to the cf7md_dismiss_notice action, allowing any logged in user (with roles as low as Subscriber) to set arbitrary options to true, potentially leading to Denial of Service by breaking the site.

Affected products

• Material Design for Contact Form 7: through 2.6.4

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d0932bb-d515-4432-b67b-16aba34bd285
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d0932bb-d515-4432-b67b-16aba34bd285

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