CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20979

Published: Aug 22, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20979
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Contact_form_7	Rocklobster	*	5.0.4 (excluding)

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#developers

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