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CVE-2024-1218: Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms <= 2.3.41 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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 access and modification of data via API due to an inconsistent capability check on several REST endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.41. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access and higher, to obtain access to or modify forms or entries.

Affected products

• Kaliforms Contact Form Builder: before 2.3.41 — fixed in 2.3.41

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kaliforms Contact Form Builder 2.3.41. 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/ed1aae32-6040-4c42-b8a7-4c3be371a8c0?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/ed1aae32-6040-4c42-b8a7-4c3be371a8c0?source=cve

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