CVE-2025-6463 Path traversal in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
Unauthenticated attackers can delete arbitrary files via form submissions, potentially leading to remote code execution by deleting critical configuration files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-6463?
CVE-2025-6463 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 2 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the 'entry_delete_upload_files' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.44.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary file paths in a form submission. The file will be deleted when the form submission is deleted, whether by an Administrator or via auto-deletion determined by plugin settings. This can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).
Weakness: CWE-73
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6463?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Incsub Forminator.
How do I fix CVE-2025-6463?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6463 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-6463 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6463 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- CVE-2023-4596 Forminator <= 1.24.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- CVE-2025-6464 Deserialization in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- CVE-2024-7389 Forminator <= 1.29.1 - HubSpot Developer API Key Sensitive Information Exposure
- CVE-2024-31077 SQL injection in Forminator
- CVE-2024-1794 Forminator <= 1.29.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w787-9chh-w9q4.