Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder: A security weakness
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- Plugin slug
forminator-forms- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 26, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Oct 26, 2024 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 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 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.35.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to create new or edit existing forms, including updating the default registration role to Administrator on User Registration forms.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H