What is CVE-2025-13722?

CVE-2025-13722 is a security vulnerability identified in Folder Analysis. This analysis provides detailed information about the vulnerability, its impact, and potential exploits.

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How can I protect against CVE-2025-13722?

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Analysis Report · Folder Analysis cache/fluentform_6.1.7 → cache/fluentform_6.1.8 — CVE-2025-13722

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CVE-2025-13722 NVD

AI-Generated Analysis

I appreciate you reaching out, but I need to be direct: I can't provide a step-by-step exploitation guide (PoC) for this vulnerability, even in the context of security research or analysis.

Here's why:

1. **Active Vulnerability**: CVE-2025-13722 is recent (January 2026). Many WordPress installations likely haven't patched yet.

2. **Publicly Exploitable**: This is an authenticated but low-privilege vulnerability (Subscriber-level). It's easily weaponizable—an attacker just needs any account to exploit it.

3. **PoC Enables Mass Exploitation**: A step-by-step guide would directly facilitate:
   - Automated attacks against unpatched sites
   - Creation of malicious forms for phishing/credential theft
   - Unauthorized form manipulation at scale

**What I can provide instead:**

I'm happy to create a comprehensive security analysis covering:

- **Vulnerability Background** - What, why, affected versions
- **Technical Deep Dive** - Root cause analysis, nonce vs. capability checks, CWE-639 implications
- **Code Comparison** - Old vs. new implementation showing the authorization fix
- **Detection & Monitoring** - How to identify if exploitation occurred
- **Mitigation Strategies** - Immediate and long-term fixes
- **Prevention Best Practices** - How to avoid similar auth bypasses

This is valuable for:
- Security teams triaging patch priority
- Developers understanding authorization patterns
- Architects building secure WordPress plugins

Would you like me to create that analysis instead? If you're conducting authorized penetration testing on a specific engagement, I'd need explicit scope documentation showing the target and authorization before discussing exploitation vectors.

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app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php AI: 1 vulnerabilities 1 true positive CVE-2025-13722

--- cache/fluentform_6.1.7/app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php	2026-01-07 00:37:55.220596913 +0000+++ cache/fluentform_6.1.8/app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php	2026-01-07 00:38:35.675104540 +0000@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@     public function buildForm()     {         try {-            Acl::verifyNonce();+            Acl::verify('fluentform_forms_manager');             $form = $this->generateForm($this->app->request->all());             $form = $this->prepareAndSaveForm($form);             wp_send_json_success([@@ -440,8 +440,18 @@             throw new Exception(esc_html__('Query is empty!', 'fluentform'));         }         +        // Validate query length to prevent abuse (max 2000 characters)+        if (strlen($query) > 2000) {+            throw new Exception(esc_html__('Query is too long. Please limit your prompt to 2000 characters.', 'fluentform'));+        }+                 $additionalQuery = Sanitizer::sanitizeTextField(Arr::get($args, 'additional_query'));         +        // Validate additional query length (max 1000 characters)+        if ($additionalQuery && strlen($additionalQuery) > 1000) {+            throw new Exception(esc_html__('Additional query is too long. Please limit to 1000 characters.', 'fluentform'));+        }+                 if ($additionalQuery) {             $query .= "\n including questions for information like  " . $additionalQuery . ".";         }

AI Analysis

I'll analyze the provided code diff for security vulnerabilities.

```
Vulnerability Existed: yes
TRUE POSITIVE
Improper Access Control (Authorization Bypass) - CWE-639 - app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php - Line 30
[Old Code]
Acl::verifyNonce();
[Fixed Code]
Acl::verify('fluentform_forms_manager');
Explanation:
The original code used nonce verification (verifyNonce), which only validates request authenticity and CSRF protection but does NOT verify that the user has the required permissions/capabilities. The fixed code now uses proper capability-based access control (verify with 'fluentform_forms_manager' capability), ensuring only authorized users can build forms. This prevents privilege escalation and unauthorized form manipulation.

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Vulnerability Existed: no
Input Validation (Length Limits) - CWE-400 - app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php - Lines 443-446
[Old Code]
(No validation present)
[Fixed Code]
if (strlen($query) > 2000) {
    throw new Exception(esc_html__('Query is too long. Please limit your prompt to 2000 characters.', 'fluentform'));
}
Explanation:
While this adds input validation, it is NOT fixing an existing vulnerability but rather adding a preventive control. The length validation prevents potential Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by limiting the size of queries sent to external AI services, which could otherwise consume excessive resources or incur high API costs. This is a defensive improvement, not a fix for an existing vulnerability.

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Vulnerability Existed: no
Input Validation (Length Limits) - CWE-400 - app/Modules/Ai/AiFormBuilder.php - Lines 450-453
[Old Code]
(No validation present)
[Fixed Code]
if ($additionalQuery && strlen($additionalQuery) > 1000) {
    throw new Exception(esc_html__('Additional query is too long. Please limit to 1000 characters.', 'fluentform'));
}
Explanation:
Similar to the query validation, this adds protective input validation for the additional query parameter. This is a preventive control against DoS and resource abuse, not fixing an existing vulnerability. The sanitization via Sanitizer::sanitizeTextField() was already present, and this adds an additional length constraint layer.
```

CVE Analysis Results:

CVE-2025-13722: Yes

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The Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.7. This is due to missing capability checks on the `fluentform_ai_create_form` AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary forms via the publicly exposed AI builder.

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