CVE-2024-11038

high

Description

The The WPB Popup for Contact Form 7 – Showing The Contact Form 7 Popup on Button Click – CF7 Popup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via wpb_pcf_fire_contact_form AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a7faa800-3b29-4b79-8b94-1e7985acb50d?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpb-popup-for-contact-form-7/#developers

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3188864/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpb-popup-for-contact-form-7/tags/1.7.4/includes/class.ajax.php#L34

https://gist.github.com/wpbean/1a5abfea883621b4e150eab1362a420f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-19

Updated: 2025-07-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00311