Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form: A security weakness
Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form
- Plugin slug
arforms-form-builder- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 02, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published May 02, 2024 and is one of 8 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form Plugin for WordPress – ARForms Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'arflite_remove_preview_data' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to delete arbitrary site options, resulting in loss of availability.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H