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CVE-2024-1777: Admin side data storage for Contact Form 7 <= 1.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Admin side data storage for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings update function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• zestardtechnologies Admin side data storage for Contact Form 7: through 1.1.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-side-data-storage-for-contact-form-7/trunk/inc/admin/inc/settings.php#L301
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b411a97b-2f1c-4feb-b1c7-bc5a1aab7f33?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-side-data-storage-for-contact-form-7/trunk/inc/admin/inc/settings.php#L301
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b411a97b-2f1c-4feb-b1c7-bc5a1aab7f33?source=cve

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