Vulnerability · Published Aug 16, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2026-13167Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI <= 3.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Delegated+) Arbitrary Plugin Activation via REST API and AJAX Endpoints

Medium 4.3

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A medium-severity missing authorization in Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI from wpeverest. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.2. 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 delegated form management access and above, to activate arbitrary already-installed WordPress plugins — including previously deactivated or vulnerable plugins — without holding the core activate_plugins capability. Exploitation requires the target user to hold a delegated Everest Forms capability (manage_everest_forms, everest_forms_create_forms, or everest_forms_view_forms), which the plugin's own roles and permissions tool allows administrators to assign to non-administrator roles such as Author; the nonces required to exploit the AJAX handlers are emitted on EVF admin pages accessible to any such delegated user.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
wpeverest	Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI	0 – through 3.5.2

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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Affected products (as reported)

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