CVE-2024-12026: Message Filter for Contact Form 7 <= 1.6.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) New Filter Creation

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Message Filter for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the saveFilter() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new filters. CVE-2024-54254 may be a duplicate of this CVE.

Affected products

Kofi Mokome Message Filter for Contact Form 7: through 1.6.3

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3203387/cf7-message-filter/trunk?contextall=1&old=3160303&old_path=%2Fcf7-message-filter%2Ftrunk
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-message-filter/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e7044aa-a1e7-4b1d-9f50-5e250426c6b0?source=cve

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