Create custom forms for WordPress with a smart form plugin for smart businesses <= 1.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2025-2801
CVSS High (7.3)
Publicly Published April 25, 2025
Last Updated April 26, 2025
Researcher Avraham Shemesh
Description

The The Create custom forms for WordPress with a smart form plugin for smart businesses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug abcsubmit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.4
Patched Version
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