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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-12522
CVE-2024-12522:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Yay! Forms WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.2.1) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-12522) that affects the plugin's 'yayforms' shortcode. The vulnerability was disclosed on February 19, 2025, and stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The weakness is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD, Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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