CVE-2024-12544 Missing authorization in SurveyJS: Drag & Drop Form Builder
Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary files due to missing authorization checks, potentially leading to remote code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12544?
CVE-2024-12544 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in devsoftbaltic SurveyJS: Drag & Drop Form Builder, published on 1 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to a missing capability check on the callback function of the SurveyJS_DeleteFile class in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). This function is still vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery as of 1.12.20.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12544?
How do I fix CVE-2024-12544?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12544 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-12544 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12544 in the wild and no public exploit code.