CVE-2024-11188 Cross-site scripting in Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via Custom HTML Form parameters, executing code in victim browsers if they click a crafted link.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11188?
CVE-2024-11188 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in strategy11team Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 23 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to POST-Based Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the Custom HTML Form parameters in all versions up to, and including, 6.16.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11188?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Strategy11 Formidable Forms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-11188?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11188 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-2024-11188 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11188 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in strategy11team Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
- CVE-2023-2877 Formidable Forms < 6.3.1 - Subscriber+ Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2023-1405 Formidable Forms < 6.2 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
- CVE-2024-0660 Formidable Forms <= 6.7.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-23522 WordPress Formidable Forms plugin <= 6.7 - Content Injection vulnerability
- CVE-2024-6725 Formidable Forms <= 6.11.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xxwr-xc7w-gxgv.