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CVE-2026-9187

The Abandoned Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary post deletion in versions up to, and including, 2.2. This is due to a missing capability check and missing nonce validation in the action__remove_abandoned() function, which is registered to both the wp_ajax_remove_abandoned and wp_ajax_nopriv_remove_abandoned hooks. The handler takes a user-supplied recover_id parameter from $_POST and passes it directly to wp_delete_post() with the force-delete flag set t
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:6b40588f32b7449d0481eea33c1ff900ab7826940fcb7e68ae3148945e78094d
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Abandoned Contact Form 7","vendor":"zealopensource","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.2","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":5.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-862","description":"CWE-862 Missing Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/abandoned-contact-form-7/tags/2.2/inc/class.cf7af.php#L49"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/abandoned-contact-form-7/tags/2.2/inc/class.cf7af.php#L65"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/abandoned-contact-form-7/tags/2.2/inc/class.cf7af.php#L68"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a38ebdeb-6ab8-4f1d-9c13-39211a9e97b6?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:8a904dc9d6bf0ec299ee0d20036eee3162c3697fb5e671f7cbae6dc47214ffc1 · sha256:a3d7db5b55a66e25… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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