CVE-2024-22305· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Patchstack

WordPress Contact Form builder with drag & drop - Kali Forms Plugin <= 2.3.36 is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.45% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
Fixed version: ali Forms Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms 2.3.37.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to ali Forms Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms 2.3.37 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in ali Forms Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms.This issue affects Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms: from n/a through 2.3.36.

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Broken access control (IDOR)

Published: Jan 31, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 38th percentile
CWE: CWE-639

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.1
CNA · Patchstack: 7.5; 0.6 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
kaliforms	kali forms	cpe:2.3:a:kaliforms:kali_forms

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

kaliforms kali formsbefore 2.3.37

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

ali Forms Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms
- n/a and later · up to and including 2.3.36affectedfixed in 2.3.37

Same product

kaliforms: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-36717Kali Forms <= 2.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
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CVE-2025-3201Kali Forms < 2.4.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
23Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2020-36712Jun 6, 2023 · Kali Forms <= 2.1.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
ali Forms Contact Form builder with drag & drop for WordPress – Kali Forms	2.3.37	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Revan Arifio (Patchstack Alliance)finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-0088 · Feb 8, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Zafiyeti)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-639 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);
2res.json(invoice);

Fixed

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({
2  id: req.params.id,
3  ownerId: req.user.id,
4});
5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);
6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

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References

patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/kali-forms/wordpress-kali-forms-plugin-2-3-38-insecure-direct-object-references-idor-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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