Abandoned Contact Form 7

{
    "slug": "abandoned-contact-form-7",
    "closed_reason": "",
    "closed_date": "2026-06-10 00:00:00",
    "active_installs": 100
}

{
    "slug": "abandoned-contact-form-7",
    "pattern": "unserialize_after_remote_call",
    "kind": "builtin",
    "version": "2.2",
    "hit_count": 1,
    "first_hit": {
        "file": "inc/class.cf7af.update.php",
        "line": 162,
        "snippet": "L155: $request = wp_remote_post( $this->update_path, $params );  \u2192  L162: return @unserialize( $request['body'] );"
    },
    "explanation": "a remote HTTP fetch (`wp_remote_*` / `curl_exec`) is followed by `@unserialize` within the same file \u2014 classic PHP Object Injection C2 gadget. The error-suppressed form is the tell: legit code wants to know when deserialize fails; attackers suppress so malformed gadgets do not leak. A real finding regardless of author intent: any plugin that deserializes remote responses without validation is a latent RCE chain if the remote endpoint is ever compromised."
}