CVE-2018-20979

published 2019-08-22

CVE-2018-20979: The contact-form-7 plugin before 5.0.4 for WordPress has privilege escalation because of capability_type mishandling in register_post_type.

Priority P3 48 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

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

The contact-form-7 plugin before 5.0.4 for WordPress has privilege escalation because of capability_type mishandling in register_post_type.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
rocklobster	contact_form_7	< 5.0.4	5.0.4

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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