Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget <= 2.1.7 - Authentication Request Bypass

Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
CVE CVE-2024-35747
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published June 6, 2024
Last Updated June 12, 2024
Researcher Joshua Chan
Description

The Contact Form Builder, Contact Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting authentication attempts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-forms-builder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.7
Patched Version
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