Fluent Forms <= 6.2.1 — Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in Email Attachment
CVE-2026-6344Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤6.2.1Update to 6.2.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.9
- CVSS
- 4.9CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder fluentform
- Affected≤ 6.2.1
- Patched in6.2.2
Update to 6.2.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 6.2.1. Version 6.2.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 6.2.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Niv Kochan.
The Fluent Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in versions up to and including 6.2.1. This is due to insufficient path validation in the getAttachments() method of EmailNotificationActions, which resolves attacker-supplied file-upload URLs into filesystem paths without verifying that the resolved path stays inside the WordPress uploads directory: a strpos() prefix check on the raw URL can be bypassed with traversal sequences, wp_normalize_path() does not resolve ".\..\" segments, and file_exists() then resolves them at the kernel level. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator access to read arbitrary files readable by the web-server user — including wp-config.php with its database credentials and authentication salts — by submitting a form whose admin notification is configured to attach a file-upload field and supplying a crafted URL of the shape <upload_baseurl>/../../<target> as the file-field value. The resolved file is attached to the outbound admin-notification email via wp_mail(). While the email can be triggered by unauthenticated users, the email recipient is not user-controlled.
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 medium, CVSS 4.9
Record last updated
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