Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.9
- Affected Plugin
- Abandoned Contact Form 7
- Affected Version
< 2.9- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-52817
At a glance
CVE-2025-52817 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Abandoned Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.9. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2025, reported by theviper17y.
Vulnerability Overview
The Abandoned Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and excluding, 2.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Abandoned Contact Form 7 < 2.9 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Abandoned Contact Form 7 the fix is 2.9: builds < 2.9 are affected, anything from 2.9 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.9, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Abandoned Contact Form 7 2.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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