CVE-2026-6831: Advanced Contact form 7 DB <= 2.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Information Disclosure via 'acf7db' Shortcode

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-09-23
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Advanced Contact form 7 DB plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to missing authorization in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.9. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read all Contact Form 7 submission data via the 'acf7db' shortcode.

Affected products

vsourz1td Advanced Contact form 7 DB: through 2.1.1

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3587196%40advanced-cf7-db%2Ftags%2F2.1.2&old=3510776%40advanced-cf7-db%2Ftags%2F2.1.1
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3c5fe0b-8a22-4df2-9adf-b6a7fe1a8a8c?source=cve

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