SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity <= 1.12.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion via SurveyJS_DeleteFile

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-12544
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 28, 2025
Last Updated March 1, 2025
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
Description

The SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to a missing capability check on the callback function of the SurveyJS_DeleteFile class in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.17. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). This function is still vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery as of 1.12.20.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug surveyjs (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.12.17
Patched Version
  • 1.12.18
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