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.
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-44445 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.
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.245Z

Reserved: 2024-05-14T13:28:23.376Z

Link: CVE-2024-4870

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.245Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-06-04T02:15:49.620

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:43:45.780

Link: CVE-2024-4870

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:22:55Z

Weaknesses

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