CVE-2021-24608 Formidable Form Builder < 5.0.07 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
High-privileged users can inject malicious scripts via form labels in Formidable Forms, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions to execute code or hijack accounts.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-24608?
CVE-2021-24608 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Formidable Form Builder – Contact Form, Survey & Quiz Forms Plugin for WordPress, published on 25 Oct 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Formidable Form Builder – Contact Form, Survey & Quiz Forms Plugin for WordPress plugin before 5.0.07 does not sanitise and escape its Form's Labels, allowing high privileged users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24608?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Strategy11 Formidable Form Builder.
How do I fix CVE-2021-24608?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24608 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2021-24608 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24608 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Formidable Form Builder – Contact Form, Survey & Quiz Forms Plugin for WordPress
- CVE-2019-15780 Deserialization in n/a
- CVE-2021-24884 Formidable Form Builder < 4.09.05 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2017-20192 Formidable Form Builder < 2.05.03 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2023-24419 WordPress Formidable Forms Plugin <= 5.5.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE-2023-6830 Formidable Forms <= 6.7 - HTML Injection
Sources
Also known as CVE-2021-39330, GHSA-76gr-jrfv-xpv4.