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Caldera Forms Pro < 1.8.2 — Missing Authorization

ce834ae1-e05a-4b0e-9d7f-144669437d70Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.8.2Update to 1.7.7 or 1.8.2 or newer

Fixed versions are per release branch: update to the fix for the branch you run.

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:N Privileges required
None
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
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Caldera Forms Pro caldera-forms-pro

  1. Affected< 1.8.2
  2. Patched in1.7.7 / 1.8.2

Update to 1.7.7 / 1.8.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.8.2. Version 1.7.7, 1.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Caldera Forms Pro.
  • 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

  1. Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 1.7.7, 1.8.2
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Caldera Forms Pro to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Marc-Alexandre Montpas.

The Caldera Forms Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the register_rest_route function in versions, up to and including, 1.7.6 in the 1.7.x branch, and 1.8.1 in the 1.8.x branch. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files, including wp-config.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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