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CVE-2025-6463: Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder <= 1.44.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion Triggered via Administrator Form Submission Deletion

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-73

Description

The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the 'entry_delete_upload_files' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.44.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary file paths in a form submission. The file will be deleted when the form submission is deleted, whether by an Administrator or via auto-deletion determined by plugin settings. This can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).

Affected products

• WPMU DEV Forminator: before 1.44.3 — fixed in 1.44.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: WPMU DEV Forminator 1.44.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/trunk/library/model/class-form-entry-model.php#L1249
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3319860/forminator#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6dc9b4cb-d36b-4693-a7b9-1dad123b6639?source=cve

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