Everest Forms <= 3.6.2 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion via 'everest_forms_{form_id}_old_{field_id}' Parameter
CVE-2026-120513Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.6.2Update to 3.6.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.2
- CVSS
- 8.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:LWhat 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:HIntegrity- High
A:LAvailability- Low
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI everest-forms
- Affected≤ 3.6.2
- Patched in3.6.3
Update to 3.6.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.6.2. Version 3.6.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI.
- 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 3.6.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to SAHRAOUI AYMEN.
The Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the remove_csv_file_after_email_send function in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.2 This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete files within the wp-content/uploads directory on the server, which can lead to loss of uploaded content. On hardened Apache configurations, deletion of uploads/.htaccess can re-enable PHP execution inside the uploads directory. This attack is only possible when the Save-and-Continue addon is active (EVF_SAVE_AND_CONTINUE_VERSION is defined) and the 'Disable storing entry information' setting is enabled on the target form. Escaping the uploads directory and deleting files in the site root can be possible under rare circumstances.
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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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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