# CVE-2025-14782: Missing authorization in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

> Authenticated users with Forminator dashboard access can export sensitive form submission data due to missing authorization checks.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **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:** 9 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4jc9-6xgj-c97r

## What is CVE-2025-14782?

CVE-2025-14782 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 9 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.49.1 via the 'listen_for_csv_export' function. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with access to the Forminator dashboard, to export sensitive form submission data including personally identifiable information.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14782?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-14782?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14782 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14782 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14782 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 9 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & 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-2025-14782/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14782/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14782
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14782
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14782

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14782/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.