# CVE-2024-7052: Forminator < 1.38.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts into Forminator Forms settings, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 14 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3pm4-j65g-c8hx

## What is CVE-2024-7052?

CVE-2024-7052 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Forminator Forms, published on 14 Feb 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Forminator Forms  WordPress plugin before 1.38.3 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7052?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpmudev Forminator Forms.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-7052?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7052 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-7052 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7052 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Forminator Forms

- [CVE-2024-10402](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10402/): Missing authorization in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2025-5341](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5341/): Cross-site scripting in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-3487](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3487/): Forminator <= 1.42.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'limit' (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-0469](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0469/): Forminator <= 1.39.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2025-0470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0470/): Forminator <= 1.38.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Title Parameter (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7052 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-7052 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Forminator Forms, published on 14 Feb 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7052 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Forminator Forms. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7052/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7052/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7052
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7052
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7052

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7052/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.