CVE-2024-9352

Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder <= 1.35.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Draft Custom Form Creation

2024-10-16 00:00
Vijaysimha Reddy (vijaysimha)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.36.0
Affected Plugin
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
Affected Version
<= 1.35.1
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-9352
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At a glance

CVE-2024-9352 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Forminator Forms WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.35.1. 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 1.36.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by Vijaysimha Reddy (vijaysimha).

Vulnerability Overview

The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.35.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the custom form 'create_module' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create draft forms 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)

Forminator Forms <= 1.35.1 carries this weakness at create_module, and reaching it 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 Forminator Forms the fix is 1.36.0: builds <= 1.35.1 are affected, anything from 1.36.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.36.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Forminator Forms: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Forminator Forms 1.36.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9352https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81e6e266-078a-4f4f-a335-c9d388f41ef2https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9352

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