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SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity <= 1.12.17 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via SurveyJS_DeleteFile

CVE-2024-12544Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.12.17Update to 1.12.18 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

SurveyJS: Drag & Drop Form Builder surveyjs

  1. Affected≤ 1.12.17
  2. Patched in1.12.18

Update to 1.12.18 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.12.17. Version 1.12.18 and later are not affected by this issue.

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

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.12.18, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch SurveyJS: Drag & Drop Form Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Thanh Nam Tran.

The SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to a missing capability check on the callback function of the SurveyJS_DeleteFile class in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). This function is still vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery as of 1.12.20.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in SurveyJS: Drag & Drop Form Builder

All 10
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.5.3No patch available
CVE-2026-2440
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Survey Cloning
≤2.5.2Update to 2.5.3
CVE-2025-13205
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Survey Renaming
≤2.5.2Update to 2.5.3
CVE-2025-13194
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Survey Creation
≤2.5.2Update to 2.5.3
CVE-2025-13139
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Survey Deletion
≤1.12.20Update to 1.20.27
CVE-2025-13140

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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