CVE-2025-6691 Path traversal in SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress

What is CVE-2025-6691?

CVE-2025-6691 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in brainstormforce SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress, published on 9 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 SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the delete_entry_files() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).

Weakness: CWE-610, CWE-73

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6691?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Brainstormforce Sureforms.

How do I fix CVE-2025-6691?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6691 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-2025-6691 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6691 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in brainstormforce SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress

• CVE-2025-6742 Deserialization in SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress High 7.5
• CVE-2025-5921 SureForms < 1.7.2 - Reflected XSS Medium 5.8
• CVE-2024-12713 Missing authorization in SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder Medium 5.3
• CVE-2025-3471 SureForms < 1.4.4 - Contributor+ Settings Update Medium 4.9
• CVE-2025-3513 SureForms < 1.4.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS Low 3.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-4cjp-gf5v-8843.