Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder: Code execution
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder is affected by code execution. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Successful exploitation can run attacker-controlled code in the WordPress hosting account.
- Component
- Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- Plugin slug
forminator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 02, 2025
This CVE was published Jul 02, 2025 and is one of 36 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 arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the 'entry_delete_upload_files' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.44.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary file paths in a form submission. The file will be deleted when the form submission is deleted, whether by an Administrator or via auto-deletion determined by plugin settings. This can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H