Contact Form 7 5.0.4

Contact Form 7 5.0.4 is available. This is a security and maintenance release and we strongly encourage you to update to it immediately.


A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Contact Form 7 5.0.3 and older versions. Utilizing this vulnerability, a logged-in user in the Contributor role can potentially edit contact forms, which only Administrator and Editor-role users are allowed to access by default. This issue has been reported by Simon Scannell from RIPS Technologies.

To minimize damage from possible attacks utilizing those vulnerabilities, Contact Form 7 5.0.4 and higher will restrict the local file attachment feature. More particularly, you will no longer be able to specify an absolute file path that refers to a file placed outside the wp-content directory. You can still specify files inside the wp-content directory with relative or absolute file paths, so all you need to change is the location of the attachment files.

Requires: WordPress 4.8 or higher
Tested up to: WordPress 4.9.8

» Download Contact Form 7 plugin from WordPress.org

Change Log

  • Specifies the capability_type argument explicitly in the register_post_type() call to fix the privilege escalation vulnerability issue.
  • Local File Attachment – disallows the specifying of absolute file paths referring to files outside the wp-content directory.
  • Config Validator – adds a test item to detect invalid file attachment settings.
  • Fixes a bug in the JavaScript fallback function for legacy browsers that do not support the HTML5 placeholder attribute.
  • Acceptance Checkbox – unsets the form-tag’s do-not-store feature.