WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Contact Form 7 Signature Addon <= 4.2.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in Email Attachments

Description

The plugin does not sanitize a signature field value before building an email attachment path from it, allowing unauthenticated users to attach arbitrary files (bounded to wp-content on current Contact Form 7) to a form's outgoing email via path traversal; when a form is configured to email a copy to a submitter-controlled address, the attacker can read the targeted file.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

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Classification

Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Kiran Krishnakumar
Submitter
Kiran Krishnakumar
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-14 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-07 (about 9 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-07 (about 9 days ago)

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