Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget <= 2.1.7 — Authentication Request Bypass
CVE-2024-35747Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.1.7No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget contact-forms-builder
- Affected≤ 2.1.7
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.1.7. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget.
- 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
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Joshua Chan.
The Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting authentication attempts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.6.1No patch available | CVE-2022-50959 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.1.7No patch available | CVE-2023-46075 |
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.6.1No patch available
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.1.7No patch available
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
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
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- 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.