CVE-2024-13605
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Form Maker by 10Web WordPress plugin before version 1.15.33 contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The issue was discovered by Dmitrii Ignatyev and publicly disclosed on February 3, 2025. The vulnerability affects the plugin's settings functionality, specifically impacting WordPress installations including multisite setups (WPScan, CVE Mitre).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain plugin settings. This security flaw allows high-privilege users, such as administrators, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 3.5 (low severity) and is classified as CWE-79 (WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability enables high-privilege users to inject and store malicious JavaScript code in the plugin settings, which could potentially be executed when other users access the affected areas of the WordPress admin panel (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.15.33 of the Form Maker by 10Web plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

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