Material Design for Contact Form 7 <= 2.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Settings Update

6.5
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-0404
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 11, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Material Design for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin through 2.6.4 does not check authorization or that the option mentioned in the notice param belongs to the plugin when processing requests to the cf7md_dismiss_notice action, allowing any logged in user (with roles as low as Subscriber) to set arbitrary options to true, potentially leading to Denial of Service by breaking the site.

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Vulnerability Details for Material Design for Contact Form 7

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug material-design-for-contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.4

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