MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor: Sensitive information exposure
MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor is affected by sensitive information exposure. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller.
- Component
- MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor
- Plugin slug
metform- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 11, 2024
This CVE was published Jun 11, 2024 and is one of 22 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor 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 MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 3.8.8 via the 'handle_file' function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as Personally Identifiable Information, from files uploaded by users.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-4266
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com