cve/2018/CVE-2018-20979.md

### [CVE-2018-20979](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20979)
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### Description

The contact-form-7 plugin before 5.0.4 for WordPress has privilege escalation because of capability_type mishandling in register_post_type.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/El-Palomo/MR-ROBOT-1