Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension <= 4.5 — Information Disclosure via Shortcode
CVE-2024-10084Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.5Update to 4.5.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Information Exposure
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7 contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension
- Affected≤ 4.5
- Patched in4.5.1
Update to 4.5.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.5. Version 4.5.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 4.5.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch DTX – Dynamic Text Extension for Contact Form 7 to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Francesco Carlucci.
The Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Basic Information Disclosure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5 via the CF7_get_post_var shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract the titles and text contents of private and password-protected posts, they do not own.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Information Exposure ≤5.0.7No patch available | CVE-2026-62043 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.0.5Update to 5.0.6 | CVE-2026-5116 | |
| Medium6.5 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution ≤5.0.7No patch available | CVE-2025-13146 | |
| Medium6.5 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution ≤5.0.5No patch available | CVE-2025-63068 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤5.0.1Update to 5.0.2 | CVE-2024-56218 |
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- Medium4.4Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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