CVE-2024-4870 HIGH

CVE-2024-4870: Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7 <= 5.1 - Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation

Vendor Pokornydavid
Product Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7
Weakness CWE-266
Published June 4, 2024
Last update April 8, 2026

CVSS base score

7.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 4, 2024 CVE published
April 8, 2026 Record updated