CVE-2024-13450

Contact Form by Bit Form <= 2.17.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery

2025-01-24 19:37
Francesco Carlucci

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.17.5
Affected Version
<= 2.17.4
CVSS
3.8Low
Weakness type
CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-13450
View all Bit Form – Contact Form, Payment Forms, Multi Step Forms, Calculator & Custom Form Builder vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2024-13450 is a low-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Bit Form WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.17.4. It carries a CVSS score of 3.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Administrator level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.17.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Francesco Carlucci.

Vulnerability Overview

The Contact Form by Bit Form: Multi Step Form, Calculation Contact Form, Payment Contact Form & Custom Contact Form builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.4 via the Webhooks integration. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. The vulnerability can also be exploited in Multisite environments.

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 interaction from a victim user.

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Bit Form <= 2.17.4 takes an account at Administrator level or above. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.

The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Bit Form the fix is 2.17.5: builds <= 2.17.4 are affected, anything from 2.17.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.17.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Bit Form 2.17.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
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