Everest Forms <= 3.6.2 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Smart-Tag Injection in Smart-Tag Injection in Form Field Values ({post_meta key=...})
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Everest Forms plugin for WordPress, a contact, payment, and survey form builder, is affected by this vulnerability. It allows unauthenticated visitors to access sensitive data stored in WordPress post metadata, such as API keys, login credentials, and payment or cloud service secrets, through form notification emails or stored form entries.
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The Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.2 via the process. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract arbitrary WordPress post meta values — including license keys, API tokens, SMTP credentials, and Stripe or AWS secrets stored on any post type — via form submission notification emails or stored entries. The submission nonce is publicly rendered in every embedded form and can additionally be minted anonymously via the nopriv everest_forms_get_form_update_nonce action, meaning no account or prior authentication of any kind is required to complete the exploit.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- wpeverest Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI
through 3.6.2
References 9
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/class-evf-smart-tags.php#L503
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/class-evf-form-task.php#L731
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/class-evf-form-task.php#L261
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/class-evf-ajax.php#L681
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/class-evf-ajax.php#L2342
- browser/everest-forms/tags/3.6.1/includes/shortcodes/class-evf-shortcode-form.php#L370
- changeset/3747723/everest-forms/trunk/includes/class-evf-form-task.php