CVE-2024-9700 | Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder <= 1.36.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Submission Manipulation

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, 1.36.0 via the submit_quizzes() function due to missing validation on the 'entry_id' user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify other user's quiz submissions.

Published: 2024-10-31 Last update: 2024-11-25 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2024-9700 is rated Low Risk (31.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.38%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-9700

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.23% 0.38% +0.15%
2 2025-12-08 0.15% 0.23% +0.09%
3 2025-11-21 0.15%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-9700

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
3.9 1.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-9700

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-9700

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
wpmudev forminator_forms < 1.36.1 cpe:2.3:a:wpmudev:forminator_forms:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2024-9700

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