Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 <= 2.4.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Setting Reset
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.4.14
- Affected Plugin
- Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7
- Affected Version
<= 2.4.13- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-5804
At a glance
CVE-2024-5804 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.4.13. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.4.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Marco Wotschka.
Vulnerability Overview
The Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.4.13. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the wpcf7cf_admin_init function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 <= 2.4.13 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 the fix is 2.4.14: builds <= 2.4.13 are affected, anything from 2.4.14 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.4.14, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 2.4.14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7
- 5.3CVE-2026-25863: Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 <= 2.7.2 DoS
CVE-2026-25863 - 4.4CVE-2024-50412: Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 Stored XSS
CVE-2024-50412 - 4.3CVE-2023-47838: Conditional Fields… Missing Authorization
CVE-2023-47838 - 4.3Conditional Fields for Contact Form 7 <= 2.4.0 Missing Authorization
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