PT-2019-10415 · Takayuki Miyoshi · Contact Form 7

Published 2019-08-22 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-20979

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions contact-form-7 plugin versions prior to 5.0.4

Description The issue is related to privilege escalation due to capability type mishandling in the register post type function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.0.4, update to version 5.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20979

Affected Products

Contact Form 7

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20979 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#developers · Note