# CVE-2024-10402: Missing authorization in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

> Authenticated contributors can create or edit forms to escalate privileges to Administrator due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 26 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3x48-c5fq-3p9x

## What is CVE-2024-10402?

CVE-2024-10402 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 26 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.35.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to create new or edit existing forms, including updating the default registration role to Administrator on User Registration forms.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10402?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpmudev Forminator Forms.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10402?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

- [CVE-2025-5341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5341/): Cross-site scripting in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-3487](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3487/): Forminator <= 1.42.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'limit' (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-0469](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0469/): Forminator <= 1.39.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-0470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0470/): Forminator <= 1.38.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Title Parameter (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2025-3479](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3479/): Forminator <= 1.42.0 - Order Replay Vulnerability (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10402 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10402 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 26 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10402/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10402/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10402
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10402
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10402

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10402/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.