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CVE-2024-4266: MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor <= 3.8.8 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 3.8.8 via the 'handle_file' function. This can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as Personally Identifiable Information, from files uploaded by users.

Affected products

• roxnor MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor: before 3.8.9 — fixed in 3.8.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: roxnor MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor 3.8.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metform/trunk/core/entries/action.php#L1019
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099977/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8edb72f5-dda3-4c59-ba7a-7a460cb59c03?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/metform/trunk/core/entries/action.php#L1019
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3099977/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8edb72f5-dda3-4c59-ba7a-7a460cb59c03?source=cve

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