Contact Form 7 <= 5.3.1 - Arbitrary File Upload via Bypass

8.1
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2020-35489
CVSS 8.1 (High)
Publicly Published December 17, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jinson Varghese Behanan

Description

The Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads in versions up to 5.3.2. This is due to the fact that the plugin allows filenames to contain special characters which may make extension filter evasion possible on certain configurations. Our team was not able to reproduce this issue which leads us to believe there is a high attack complexity or special configuration requirement.

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Vulnerability Details for Contact Form 7

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.3.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 5.3.2
Patched Version
  • 5.3.2

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