Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder: A security weakness
Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop 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. The published affected range is < 2.4.17.
- Component
- Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder
- Affected
- < 2.4.17
- Safe version
2.4.17- Published
- Jul 15, 2026
This CVE was published Jul 15, 2026 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder to 2.4.17 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
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 Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder WordPress plugin before 2.4.17 does not perform a per-object capability check in its post-duplication AJAX action, allowing users with Contributor-level access or above to duplicate any post (regardless of owner, post type, or status) into a published post they own and read its private post metadata, including secrets stored by other Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder WordPress plugin before 2.4.17.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N