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

> Unauthenticated attackers can delete arbitrary files via path traversal, potentially leading to remote code execution.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 9 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4cjp-gf5v-8843

## 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 (Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere), CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6691?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6742/): Deserialization in SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-5921](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5921/): SureForms < 1.7.2 - Reflected XSS (medium 5.8)
- [CVE-2024-12713](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12713/): Missing authorization in SureForms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Other Custom Form Builder (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2025-3471](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3471/): SureForms < 1.4.4 - Contributor+ Settings Update (medium 4.9)
- [CVE-2025-3513](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3513/): SureForms < 1.4.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS (low 3.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-6691 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: brainstormforce SureForms – Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress. 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-2025-6691/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6691/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6691
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6691
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-6691

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6691/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.