CVE-2024-12601 Calculated Fields Form <= 5.2.63 - Denial of Service

What is CVE-2024-12601?

CVE-2024-12601 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in codepeople Calculated Fields Form, published on 17 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Calculated Fields Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.63. This is due to unlimited height and width parameters for CAPTCHA images. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send multiple requests with large values, resulting in slowing server resources if the server does not mitigate Denial of Service attacks.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12601?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Codepeople Calculated Fields Form.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12601?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12601 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-12601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12601 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in codepeople Calculated Fields Form

• CVE-2024-2020 Calculated Fields Form Professional <= 5.1.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting High 7.2
• CVE-2024-29759 WordPress Calculated Fields Form plugin <= 1.2.54 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability High 7.1
• CVE-2024-0963 Calculated Fields Form <= 1.2.52 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.4
• CVE-2020-7228 Cross-site scripting in n/a Medium 5.4
• CVE-2024-9940 Calculated Fields Form <= 5.2.45 - HTML Injection Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-vc5q-pj76-5g6f.