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CVE-2021-24278

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-24278 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin prior to version 2.3.4. It allows unauthenticated attackers to generate valid nonces for any WordPress action, potentially leading to unauthorized actions. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) and is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, enabling high confidentiality impact. While not listed in CISA KEV, Nuclei templates exist for detecting this vulnerability, but there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:querysol:redirection_for_contact_form_7:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2021-24278 · Nov 27, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0736 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wpscan.com / vulnerability/99f30604-d62b-4e30-afcd-b482f8d66413
ExploitVendor Advisory
wordfence.com / blog/2021/04/severe-vulnerabilities-patched-in-redirection-for-contact-form-7-plugin
ExploitVendor Advisory