The Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Plugin Installation in all versions up to, and including, 6.35 via the 'file_url' parameter parameter. This is due to insufficient URL prefix validation in validate_url_is_in_s3_bucket() and a permission callback that relies solely on a shared token obtainable by any user with the delegable frm_view_forms capability, without checking install_plugins or activate_plugins capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install arbitrary plugins on the server. Exploitation additionally requires that the site is free-only (Formidable Pro is NOT installed).
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.8 · strategy11teamNVD modified 2026-10-30 06:47
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/87661de6-e835-495e-9bd2-4d64b4718108?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/tags/6.35/classes/controllers/FrmAddonsController.php#L1514
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/tags/6.35/classes/controllers/FrmAddonsController.php#L1489
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/tags/6.35/classes/helpers/FrmAppHelper.php#L4934
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/tags/6.35/classes/controllers/FrmAddonsController.php#L1459
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/tags/6.35/classes/controllers/FrmAppController.php#L1167
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3750372%40formidable%2Ftags%2F7.0&old=3688662%40formidable%2Ftags%2F6.35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3746820/formidable/trunk/classes/controllers/FrmAddonsController.php