Live Forms <= 4.8.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.8.5
- Affected Plugin
- Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin – Live Forms
- Affected Version
<= 4.8.4- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2025-30809
At a glance
CVE-2025-30809 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.8.4. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.8.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc).
Vulnerability Overview
The Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin – Live Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the saveSettings() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's setting.
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, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin <= 4.8.4 carries this weakness at saveSettings(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin the fix is 4.8.5: builds <= 4.8.4 are affected, anything from 4.8.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.8.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Contact Form, Drag and Drop Form Builder Plugin 4.8.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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