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WP-FormAssembly <= 2.0.8 — Limited Server Side Request Forgery via 'formassembly' shortcode

288853b8-7523-472e-8406-257ffb3bd5eaPublished · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.0.9Update to 2.0.9 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium5.0
CVSS
5.0
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-918 SSRF
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

WP-FormAssembly formassembly-web-forms

  1. Affected< 2.0.9
  2. Patched in2.0.9

Update to 2.0.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.0.9. Version 2.0.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP-FormAssembly.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.0.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP-FormAssembly to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The WP-FormAssembly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.0.8 via the 'formassembly' shortcode. This can allow authenticated attackers with subscriber-level privileges or above to make web requests to arbitrary locations that include '/rest' in the path, originating from the web application, and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP-FormAssembly

All 5
More vulnerabilities in WP-FormAssembly
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
≤2.0.11Update to 3.0.0
CVE-2024-13501
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.0.10Update to 2.0.11
CVE-2023-49768
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
≤2.0.7Update to 2.0.8
—
Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Read
≤2.0.5Update to 2.0.6
CVE-2022-45852

Same weakness (SSRF)

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.0

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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