Description

WordPress Plugin Post Form-Registration Form-Profile Form for User Profiles and Content Forms for User Submissions is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. WordPress Plugin Post Form-Registration Form-Profile Form for User Profiles and Content Forms for User Submissions version 2.7.2 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.7.3 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/buddyforms/buddyforms-272-authenticated-contributor-stored-stored-cross-site-scripting

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddyforms/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2022-38971 CWE-79 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update XSS