CVE-2022-2144: jQuery Validation For Contact Form 7 Project jQuery Validation For Contact Form 7

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Jquery Validation For Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 5.3 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change Blog options like default_role, users_can_register via a CSRF attack

Affected products

• jQuery Validation For Contact Form 7 Project jQuery Validation For Contact Form 7: before 5.3 (fixed in 5.3)

Published 2022-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.