Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.13 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-12037Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.8.13Update to 2.8.14 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.4
- CVSS
- 6.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
BuddyForms buddyforms
- Affected≤ 2.8.13
- Patched in2.8.14
Update to 2.8.14 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.8.13. Version 2.8.14 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under BuddyForms.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.8.14, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch BuddyForms to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Max Boll (_b0lli).
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 'bf_new_submission_link' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.13 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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium5.4 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'bf_post_type' Parameter via Post-Type Confusion ≤2.10.5Update to 2.10.6 | CVE-2026-107658 | |
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| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.10.0Update to 2.10.1 | CVE-2026-118101 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
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