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CVE-2023-2563: WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti <= 1.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via _accua_forms_form_edit_action

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the function _accua_forms_form_edit_action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete forms created with this plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti: through 1.5.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-forms/trunk/accua-forms.php#L738
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2924628%40contact-forms&new=2924628%40contact-forms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f80a1f13-c1b9-4259-8d96-71a3cbcaf4ca?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-forms/trunk/accua-forms.php#L738
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2924628%40contact-forms&new=2924628%40contact-forms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f80a1f13-c1b9-4259-8d96-71a3cbcaf4ca?source=cve

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