# CVE-2024-12713: Missing authorization in SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder

> Unauthenticated attackers can export data from protected, private, or draft posts due to a missing capability check in the SureForms WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vf37-2976-p465

## What is CVE-2024-12713?

CVE-2024-12713 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder, published on 8 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 via the handle_export_form() function due to a missing capability check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to export data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12713?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Brainstormforce Sureforms.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12713?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12713 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12713 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12713 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder

- [CVE-2025-6691](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6691/): Path traversal in SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2025-6742](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6742/): Deserialization in SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-5921](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5921/): SureForms < 1.7.2 - Reflected XSS (medium 5.8)
- [CVE-2025-3471](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3471/): SureForms < 1.4.4 - Contributor+ Settings Update (medium 4.9)
- [CVE-2025-3513](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3513/): SureForms < 1.4.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS (low 3.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12713 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12713 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder, published on 8 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12713 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other 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-2024-12713/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12713/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12713
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12713
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12713

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12713/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.