Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms <= 1.7.4 — Unauthenticated Blind Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
CVE-2024-13785Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.4Update to 1.7.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.6
- CVSS
- 5.6CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms arforms-form-builder
- Affected≤ 1.7.4
- Patched in1.7.5
Update to 1.7.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.4. Version 1.7.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.
The The Contact Form, Survey, Quiz & Popup Form Builder – ARForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.7.0Update to 1.7.1 | CVE-2024-10504 | |
| Medium6.5 | HTML Injection ≤1.7.1Update to 1.7.2 | CVE-2024-54223 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.6.7Update to 1.6.8 | CVE-2024-37920 | |
| High7.1 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated(Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Deletion ≤1.6.4Update to 1.6.5 | CVE-2024-1945 |
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤1.8.5Update to 1.8.6
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.7.0Update to 1.7.1
- Medium6.5HTML Injection
≤1.7.1Update to 1.7.2
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.6.7Update to 1.6.8
- High7.1Missing Authorization to Authenticated(Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Deletion
≤1.6.4Update to 1.6.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.6
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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