SurveyJS Plugin up to 1.12.20 on WordPress SurveyJS_CloneSurvey cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in SurveyJS Plugin up to 1.12.20 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function SurveyJS_CloneSurvey. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-13205. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in SurveyJS Plugin up to 1.12.20 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function SurveyJS_CloneSurvey. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The SurveyJS: Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder to create, style and embed multiple forms of any complexity plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.20. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the `SurveyJS_CloneSurvey` AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate surveys via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-13205. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-4559). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• SurveyJS Plugin

Version

• 1.12.0
• 1.12.1
• 1.12.2
• 1.12.3
• 1.12.4
• 1.12.5
• 1.12.6
• 1.12.7
• 1.12.8
• 1.12.9
• 1.12.10
• 1.12.11
• 1.12.12
• 1.12.13
• 1.12.14
• 1.12.15
• 1.12.16
• 1.12.17
• 1.12.18
• 1.12.19
• 1.12.20

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