CVE-2024-2020 Calculated Fields Form Professional <= 5.1.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2024-2020?

CVE-2024-2020 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in codepeople Calculated Fields Form, published on 13 Mar 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 Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the form page href parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.56 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires the professional version or higher.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2020?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Codepeople Calculated Fields Form.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2020?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2020 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-2024-2020 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2020 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in codepeople Calculated Fields Form

• 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-2024-12601 Calculated Fields Form <= 5.2.63 - Denial of Service Medium 5.3
• 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-8f4m-xpm2-5rxj.