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CVE-2023-1843: Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder <= 3.3.0 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized permalink structure update due to a missing capability check on the permalink_setup function in versions up to, and including, 3.3.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the permalink structure.

Affected products

• roxnor MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor: through 3.3.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metform/trunk/plugin.php#L544
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2907471/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5db00eb6-3e05-42fa-bb84-2df4bcae3955?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metform/trunk/plugin.php#L544
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2907471/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5db00eb6-3e05-42fa-bb84-2df4bcae3955?source=cve

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