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CVE-2024-1217: Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms <= 2.3.41 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Deactivation

• 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: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin deactivation due to a missing capability check on the await_plugin_deactivation function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.41. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to deactivate any active plugins.

Affected products

• Kaliforms Contact Form Builder: before 2.3.42 — fixed in 2.3.42

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kaliforms Contact Form Builder 2.3.42. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3036466/kali-forms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3029334&old_path=%2Fkali-forms%2Ftrunk
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7be75b0a-737d-4f0d-b024-e207af4573cd?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3036466/kali-forms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3029334&old_path=%2Fkali-forms%2Ftrunk
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7be75b0a-737d-4f0d-b024-e207af4573cd?source=cve

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