Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions , CVE-2024-12038

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-12038
Home page URL: Security reports for Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions
Application: Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions
Published on: Feb 22, 2025
Research Description: The Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'buddyforms_nav' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.8.16.
Status: vulnerable

Post Form &#8211; Registration Form &#8211; Profile Form for User Profiles &#8211; Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions , CVE-2024-12038