Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2023-2010 affects the Forminator WordPress plugin before 1.24.1. It can let one unauthenticated person vote multiple times in a poll, undermining poll integrity. The sources do not indicate data theft, site takeover, or confirmed active exploitation.
Executive priority
Treat this as a low-priority integrity issue unless polls drive business decisions, compliance workflows, promotions, or public reporting. Patch during normal WordPress maintenance, faster for high-value polls.
Technical view
Forminator before 1.24.1 uses a non-atomic check-and-update flow for poll vote tracking. Concurrent unauthenticated requests may pass the already-voted check before state is updated, causing a CWE-362 race condition and duplicate votes.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely on WordPress sites running Forminator below 1.24.1 with public poll voting enabled. Sites without Forminator polls are unlikely to have meaningful exposure from this issue.
Exploitation context
CISA KEV status is false in the provided bundle. WPScan is tagged as containing exploit-related information, but the bundle does not provide evidence of active exploitation in the wild.
Researcher notes
The available evidence is narrow: affected plugin, fixed version threshold, unauthenticated race condition, and duplicate poll vote impact. No CVSS score, vendor attribution, or active exploitation evidence is provided.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Forminator to version 1.24.1 or later.
- Inventory WordPress sites for vulnerable Forminator versions.
- Temporarily disable public polls until upgraded if poll integrity matters.
- Review vendor guidance for any additional plugin-specific recommendations.
Validation and detection
- Confirm installed Forminator version is 1.24.1 or later.
- Identify whether public polls are enabled on affected WordPress sites.
- Review poll results for suspicious duplicate voting patterns.
- Track remediation evidence in vulnerability management records.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d0da4c0d-622f-4310-a867-6bfdb474073aCVE reference · exploit, vdb-entry
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CWE details
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