Forminator: A security weakness
Forminator is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Forminator
- Plugin slug
forminator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 04, 2023
This CVE was published Jul 04, 2023 and is one of 36 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Forminator 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 WordPress plugin before 1.24.1 does not use an atomic operation to check whether a user has already voted, and then update that information. This leads to a Race Condition that may allow a single user to vote multiple times on a poll.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N