{"id":"CVE-2024-4870","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation","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.","publishedAt":"2024-06-04T02:00:54.640Z","updatedAt":"2026-04-08T17:22:08.762Z","severity":{"score":7.2,"label":"High","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","source":"Wordfence"},"assigner":"Wordfence","products":["pokornydavid Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7"],"affected":[{"vendor":"pokornydavid","product":"Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.1","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["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"],"weaknesses":["CWE-266"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:07:56.516Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2024/4xxx/CVE-2024-4870.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2024-4870","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2024-06-04T02:00:54.640Z","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T17:22:08.762Z","assignerShortName":"Wordfence","assignerOrgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateReserved":"2024-05-14T13:28:23.376Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"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":[{"vendor":"pokornydavid","product":"Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.1","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244"}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":7.2,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"}}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-266","lang":"en","description":"CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"Wordfence","orgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateUpdated":"2026-04-08T17:22:08.762Z"},"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"István Márton"}],"timeline":[{"time":"2024-05-14T00:00:00.000Z","lang":"en","value":"Discovered"},{"time":"2024-06-03T00:00:00.000Z","lang":"en","value":"Disclosed"}]},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"id":"CVE-2024-4870","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"total"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2024-06-04T15:26:02.603792Z"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2024-06-04T17:56:14.283Z"}},{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca616ae6-59d3-4037-b538-d371f007a037?source=cve","tags":["x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/trunk/frontend-registration-cf7.php?rev=2975770#L244","tags":["x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-01T20:55:10.245Z"}}]}}}