Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.6.2
- Affected Plugin
- Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms
- Affected Version
<= 1.6.1- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-31272
At a glance
CVE-2024-31272 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.6.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.6.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2024, reported by beluga.
Vulnerability Overview
The ARForms Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.6.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder <= 1.6.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder the fix is 1.6.2: builds <= 1.6.1 are affected, anything from 1.6.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.6.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder 1.6.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Other vulnerabilities in Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms
- 9.8CVE-2024-13784: Contact Form PHP Object Injection
CVE-2024-13784 - 7.2CVE-2024-10504: Contact Form Stored XSS
CVE-2024-10504 - 7.2CVE-2023-6828: ARForms <= 1.5.8 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2023-6828 - 7.2CVE-2022-45838: ARForms Form Builder <= 1.5.6 Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-45838 - 7.1CVE-2024-1945: ARForms Form Builder Authenticated(Subscriber+)
CVE-2024-1945 - 6.5CVE-2024-54223: ARForms Form Builder <= 1.7.1 HTML Injection
CVE-2024-54223 - 6.1CVE-2024-37920: ARForms Form Builder <= 1.6.7 Reflected XSS
CVE-2024-37920 - 5.6CVE-2024-13785: Contact Form Blind Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
CVE-2024-13785
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