CVE-2024-2771 Missing authorization in Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder
Unauthenticated attackers can grant themselves management permissions and delete manager accounts due to missing capability checks in the REST API.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-2771?
CVE-2024-2771 is a critical missing authorization vulnerability in techjewel Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder, published on 18 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Contact Form Plugin by Fluent Forms for Quiz, Survey, and Drag & Drop WP Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the /wp-json/fluentform/v1/managers REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.16. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to grant users with Fluent Form management permissions which gives them access to all of the plugin's settings and features. This also makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete manager accounts.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2771?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fluentforms Contact Form.
How do I fix CVE-2024-2771?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2771 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-2024-2771 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2771 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template and 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-q774-r932-hjpq.