CVE-2026-97638 (GCVE-0-2026-97638)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-30 17:15
Modified
2026-10-30 18:08
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Summary
The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.57.3.1 via the 'previous_draft_id' parameter due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary saved drafts belonging to other users and take over those draft identifiers by overwriting them with attacker-controlled form submissions. This requires the attacker to have obtained a victim's draft_id, which may be harvested from a shared "continue later" link; the nominally present nonce check is effectively bypassed because the nonce is publicly obtainable by any unauthenticated visitor loading a form page.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder Version: 0   ≤ 1.57.3.1
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