CVE-2024-12713

SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress <= 1.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Protected Post Disclosure

2025-01-07 00:00
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.2.3
Affected Plugin
SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz
Affected Version
<= 1.2.2
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-12713
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At a glance

CVE-2024-12713 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the SureForms WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.2.2. 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 1.2.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 via the handle_export_form() function due to a missing capability check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to export data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

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

SureForms <= 1.2.2 carries this weakness at handle_export_form(), and reaching it takes no account at all. 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 SureForms the fix is 1.2.3: builds <= 1.2.2 are affected, anything from 1.2.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: SureForms 1.2.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12713https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/412d5fa7-08fc-402a-bcac-b2dff87de861https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12713

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