CVE-2024-10054 Happyforms < 1.26.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts into Happyforms settings, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.
- 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-2024-10054?
CVE-2024-10054 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Happyforms, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Happyforms WordPress plugin before 1.26.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10054?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Happyforms Happyforms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-10054?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10054 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-2024-10054 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10054 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Happyforms
- CVE-2023-48752 WordPress Happyforms Plugin <= 1.25.9 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2024-44063 WordPress Happyforms plugin <= 1.26.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
- CVE-2023-0096 Happyforms < 1.22.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
- CVE-2024-23521 WordPress Happyforms plugin <= 1.25.10 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4p3r-7jgv-wgrw.