CVE-2021-24700 (GCVE-0-2021-24700)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-23 19:16 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI
Title
Forminator < 1.15.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Forminator WordPress plugin before 1.15.4 does not sanitize and escape the email field label, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder Affected: 1.15.4 , < 1.15.4 (custom)
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Credits
Shivam Rai
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