Name: CVE-2018-20979: Undefined Security Weakness
Published: 2019-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-20979, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.02022

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

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Contact Form 7 Plugin	View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗	contact-form-7-plugin-cve-2018-20979	May 15, 2025	Sep 4, 2018

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