# 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.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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:** 1 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2024-12544 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12544 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12544 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12544 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: devsoftbaltic SurveyJS: Drag & Drop 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-2024-12544/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12544/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12544
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12544
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12544

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12544/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.