CVE-2024-4870: Pokornydavid Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Pokornydavid Frontend Registration – Contact Form 7: up to and including 5.1

Published 2024-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.