Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This WordPress plugin flaw could let an unauthenticated visitor access submitted form data. The business impact depends on what the affected forms collected, such as contact details, survey answers, payment-adjacent data, or other sensitive submissions.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority data exposure issue. Escalate if affected forms collected personal, financial, health, authentication, or customer-confidential information.
Technical view
CVE-2017-20194 is a CWE-200 sensitive data exposure issue in Formidable Form Builder for WordPress. Sources describe exposure through the frm_forms_preview AJAX action, allowing unauthenticated export of all entries for a given form in affected versions.
Likely exposure
Internet-facing WordPress sites using Formidable Form Builder versions described as vulnerable, especially sites storing confidential or regulated form submissions.
Exploitation context
The source bundle reports network-accessible, low-complexity, unauthenticated exposure with no user interaction. It does not cite active exploitation, and KEV status is false.
Researcher notes
Evidence supports unauthenticated information disclosure, but the bundle has version ambiguity between the title and description. Do not assume a fixed release from this bundle alone; confirm with vendor or Wordfence records.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory WordPress sites using Formidable Form Builder.
- Verify installed versions against vendor and Wordfence guidance.
- Update to a vendor-confirmed fixed version if available.
- Disable or remove the plugin if exposure cannot be quickly verified.
- Reduce stored form-entry retention where business requirements allow.
Validation and detection
- Identify forms that stored sensitive or regulated submissions.
- Confirm whether affected plugin versions were present historically.
- Review access logs for unusual unauthenticated form preview or export activity.
- Check whether unexpected form-entry exports occurred.
- Document affected forms, data categories, and exposure window.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.3 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N3.91.4Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
5.3MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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