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CVE-2024-13498: NEX-Forms – Ultimate Form Builder – Contact forms and much more <= 8.8.1 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The NEX-Forms – Ultimate Form Builder – Contact forms and much more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 8.8.1 via file uploads due to insufficient directory listing prevention and lack of randomization of file names. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including files uploaded via a form.

Affected products

• webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress: through 8.8.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3235420/nex-forms-express-wp-form-builder
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f188a5e6-699e-4e1a-b4e4-7fb4056b0bee?source=cve

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