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CVE-2024-12027: Message Filter for Contact Form 7 <= 1.6.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Filter Updates/Deletions

• 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: 2024-12-06 · 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 updateFilter() and deleteFilter() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update and delete filters.

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/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5754d2eb-dd31-4056-8a02-8b71b78f774b?source=cve

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