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CVE-2024-4870: Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-266

Description

The Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.1 due to insufficient restriction on the '_cf7frr_' post meta. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access and above, to modify the default user role in the registration form settings.

Affected products

• pokornydavid Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7: through 5.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve

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