QID 154132

Date Published: 2023-03-21

QID 154132: WordPress Contact Form 7 Plugin: Unrestricted File Upload and Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (CVE-2020-35489)

Contact Form 7 is a WordPress plugin which allows users to customize, manage multiple contact forms along with mail facility.

Affected versions of Contact Form 7 allows Unrestricted File Upload and remote code execution if a filename contains special characters.

Affected Versions:
Contact Form 7 prior to version 5.3.2

QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
This QID checks for vulnerable version of Contact Form 7 plugin running on the target application.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to upload malicious file and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 10 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Critical - 10 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to version 5.3.2 or later to remediate this vulnerability. For more information regarding this vulnerability please refer Contact Form 7 .

Vendor References

Contact Form 7 - contactform7.com/2020/12/17/contact-form-7-532/

CVEs related to QID 154132

CVE-2020-35489 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
Contact Form 7 5.3.2			contactform7.com/2020/12/17/contact-form-7-532/

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