Kali Forms: A security weakness
Kali Forms 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
- Kali Forms
- Plugin slug
kali-forms- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 18, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Feb 18, 2026 and is one of 12 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Kali Forms to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Kali Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.8. This is due to the `get_items_permissions_check()` permission callback on the `/kaliforms/v1/forms/{id}` REST API endpoint only checking for the `edit_posts` capability without verifying that the requesting user has ownership or authorization over the specific form resource. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read form configuration data belonging to other users (including administrators) by enumerating form IDs. Exposed data includes form field structures, Google reCAPTCHA secret keys (if configured), email notification templates, and server paths.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N