CVE-2024-9629: Contact Form 7 + Telegram <= 0.8.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Subscription Approve/Pause/Refuse

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Contact Form 7 + Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wpcf7_Telegram::ajax' function in versions up to, and including, 0.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to approve, pause and refuse subscriptions.

Affected products

hokku Message Bridge for Contact Form 7 and Telegram: through 0.8.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-telegram/tags/0.8.4/classes/wpcf7telegram.php#L537
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3176353/cf7-telegram#file21
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f330fa5a-b471-45ee-a2a6-3ae8f3941bfe?source=cve

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