CVE-2025-10489 Missing authorization in SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder
Authenticated contributors can bypass UI restrictions to create forms due to missing capability checks in the SureForms WordPress plugin.
- 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-2025-10489?
CVE-2025-10489 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder, published on 20 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The SureForms – Drag and Drop Contact Form Builder – Multi-step Forms, Conversational Forms and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized creation of forms due to a missing capability check on the register_post_types() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to create forms when the user interface specifically prohibits it.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10489?
How do I fix CVE-2025-10489?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10489 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-2025-10489 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10489 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h6pv-v424-w79g.