Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain subscriber-level account
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ExploitCall unprotected AutomatorWP AJAX endpoint
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ExecutionBypass missing authorization check
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ImpactEnumerate all Fluent Forms IDs and titles
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated WordPress account with subscriber-level privileges or higher (PR:L), and the AutomatorWP Fluent Forms integration must be active alongside the Fluent Forms plugin - the vulnerable AJAX handler lives in the plugin's fluentform integration. Exploitation is limited by the need for a valid low-privilege account, so sites that disable open user registration raise the barrier; no user interaction or elevated privileges are needed beyond that. The disclosed data is restricted to Fluent Forms form IDs and titles from the fluentform_forms table, not form submissions or configuration. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite being network-exploitable. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 4.3) correctly characterizes it: an authenticated attacker holding only subscriber-level access can enumerate Fluent Forms records (form IDs and titles) due to a missing authorization check (CWE-862). The impact is limited to confidentiality (C:L) - no integrity or availability effect - and the leaked data (form IDs and titles) is low-sensitivity metadata, not submissions or credentials. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided in the input, so there is no signal of real-world exploitation. The signals are internally consistent (low CVSS, limited impact, authenticated precondition), so there is no high-CVSS-but-low-risk contradiction to resolve here - it is simply a low-severity information-exposure flaw. The main residual risk is on sites that freely grant subscriber accounts (e.g., open registration), where the barrier to the authenticated precondition is effectively trivial. EPSS/KEV/POC data is absent rather than conflicting; absence is not evidence of safety but given the low impact it does not elevate priority. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers or obtains a subscriber-level account on a WordPress site running AutomatorWP (≤5.8.4) with the Fluent Forms integration, then invokes the plugin's unprotected AJAX endpoint to retrieve a list of all Fluent Forms, including their IDs and titles. This reconnaissance data could inform follow-on targeting of specific forms, though no code execution or data modification results. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 10, 2026
Authenticated subscribers (or any logged-in user) on WordPress sites running the AutomatorWP plugin up to and including 5.8.4 can enumerate Fluent Forms records - specifically form IDs and titles from the fluentform_forms database table - because a plugin AJAX handler performs no authorization check. The flaw is network-reachable but requires a valid low-privilege account plus the Fluent Forms plugin and AutomatorWP's Fluent Forms integration to be active, and exposure is limited to form identifiers and titles rather than submissions or configuration data (CVSS 4.3, CWE-862). There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not confirmed actively exploited (CISA KEV); overall this is a genuinely low-priority information-disclosure defect.
RemediationAI
Upgrade AutomatorWP to a release containing the authorization fix. The corrected handler is present in the plugin's 6.0.3 tag (integrations/fluentform/includes/ajax-functions.php, lines 16 and 48, and includes/scripts.php line 161) and the remediation landed via WordPress.org changeset 3656285; because no single fixed release number is asserted here, install the latest available AutomatorWP version rather than relying on a specific 5.x build - versions through 5.8.4 remain vulnerable. Where immediate upgrading is not possible, the most targeted mitigation is to deactivate the AutomatorWP Fluent Forms integration, which removes the vulnerable AJAX action entirely at the cost of breaking any Fluent Forms-based automations, webhooks, and triggers already configured. Complementary controls include disabling open user registration and auditing existing subscriber accounts so the PR:L prerequisite cannot be satisfied by an arbitrary visitor, and, if a WAF or reverse proxy is available, blocking requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php whose action parameter targets the AutomatorWP Fluent Forms handler - a rule that must be scoped to that specific action, since admin-ajax.php is used by the entire site and blanket blocking will break legitimate functionality. Note that this is an information-disclosure issue limited to Fluent Forms IDs and titles; there is no evidence of public exploit code or active exploitation, so remediation can proceed on a normal maintenance cadence, but operators should still confirm their plugin version against the Wordfence advisory at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5d421d0-4658-4203-8c74-2eb744ea34be?source=cve.
Affected VersionsENISA
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) inside the WordPress plugin AutomatorWP's Fluent Forms integration. WordPress plugins commonly expose functionality through admin-ajax.php by registering wp_ajax_* (authenticated) and wp_ajax_nopriv_* (unauthenticated) hooks; these handlers are responsible for enforcing their own capability checks (current_user_can) and nonce validation. Here the handler implemented in integrations/fluentform/includes/ajax-functions.php (referenced at lines 16 and 48 of the 6.0.3 tag) reads from the fluentform_forms table and returns form IDs and titles without verifying that the caller holds the capabilities required to manage or view Fluent Forms data, and the script registration in includes/scripts.php (line 161) is likewise not gated by an appropriate privilege check. As a result, any user with a subscriber-level session - the lowest standard WordPress role - can invoke the endpoint and harvest a listing of all Fluent Forms definitions. The classic WordPress AJAX pattern that must be present (capability check plus nonce, with the nonce only issued to users who should reach the action) is the missing control class here. Scope is confined to metadata in the fluentform_forms table; integration-specific data such as form entries, field mappings, and plugin configuration is not reachable through this path, which is why the assessed impact is confidentiality-low with no integrity or availability effect.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Authenticated subscriber access gives PR:L; the AJAX endpoint is remotely reachable (AV:N/AC:L/UI:N); only low-sensitivity form metadata leaks, so C:L with I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).
CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence
DescriptionCVE.org
The AutomatorWP - No-Code Workflow Automation, Integration & Webhooks Plugin, now with AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to enumerate all Fluent Forms records, including form IDs and titles, from the fluentform_forms database table.
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