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WordPress Plugin: everest-forms: CVE-2025-3422: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 10, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The The Everest Forms – Contact Form, Quiz, Survey, Newsletter and Payment Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. 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 authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Solution

everest-forms-plugin-cve-2025-3422
Title
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