Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend: A security weakness
Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend
- Plugin slug
views-for-wpforms- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 05, 2024
This CVE was published Feb 05, 2024 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend 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 Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'create_view' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access and above, to create form views.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N