CVE-2024-3520 (GCVE-0-2024-3520)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-02 16:51 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:34
VLAI
Title
Country State City Dropdown CF7 <= 2.7.1 - Missing Authorization
Summary
The Country State City Dropdown CF7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tc_csca_patch_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to add states or cities to the dropdown.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-17 15:09 UTC
CWE
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2251 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
trustyplugins Country State City Dropdown CF7 Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.7.1 (semver)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Lucio Sá
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