Category Archives: Releases

Contact Form 7 5.4.1

Contact Form 7 5.4.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release that includes several improvements and bug fixes.

Since the release of Contact Form 7 5.4 last February, a lot of problems have been reported and most of them have turned out to be caused by interference from other plugins or the theme used on the site.

Although fundamental solutions can be provided only by developers of the third-party plugins and themes, by updating to 5.4.1 you will be able to mitigate the problems.

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Contact Form 7 5.4 Beta

The next major update, Contact Form 7 version 5.4, is scheduled to be released on February 24. Since 5.4 brings unusually large changes, I have decided to have a beta testing period of a few weeks before the live release.

You can download a copy of the beta version plugin package from the GitHub repository. If you find any bugs, please report back to us by creating an issue on GitHub.

If you find an add-on plugin you use doesn’t work correctly with Contact Form 7 5.4, then please report the issue to the developer of that plugin, not to us. We cannot take any responsibility with regards to 3rd-party products.

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Contact Form 7 5.3.2

Contact Form 7 5.3.2 has been released. This is an urgent security and maintenance release. We strongly encourage you to update to it immediately.

An unrestricted file upload vulnerability has been found in Contact Form 7 5.3.1 and older versions. Utilizing this vulnerability, a form submitter can bypass Contact Form 7’s filename sanitization, and upload a file which can be executed as a script file on the host server. This issue has been reported by Jinson Varghese Behanan from Astra Security.

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