CVE-2025-2801: Create custom forms for WordPress with a smart form plugin for smart businesses <= 1.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Description
The The Create custom forms for WordPress with a smart form plugin for smart businesses plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.4. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-2801
CVSS Base Severity: HIGH
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected Products
Vendor: dorinabc
Product: Create custom forms for WordPress with a smart form plugin for smart businesses – Form builder for WordPress
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.21% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 43.6% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-05-25 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2801https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e45afda4-447a-4d95-90cb-9731b398a009?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/abcsubmit/tags/1.2.4/abcsubmit.php#L86
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/abcsubmit/tags/1.2.4/abcsubmit.php#L88
https://wordpress.org/plugins/abcsubmit/#developers