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CVE-2021-24718 (GCVE-0-2021-24718)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-06 15:55 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI
Title
ARForms Form Builder < 1.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross Site Scripting
Summary
The Contact Form, Survey & Popup Form Plugin for WordPress plugin before 1.5 does not properly sanitize some of its settings allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability 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
Credits
Dhananjaygarg
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