Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms <= 2.3.41 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Deactivation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1217
CVSS High (7.6)
Publicly Published February 19, 2024
Last Updated February 20, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin deactivation due to a missing capability check on the await_plugin_deactivation function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.41. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to deactivate any active plugins.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug kali-forms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.41
Patched Version
  • 2.3.42
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