Unauthenticated Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ForumWP
CVE-2024-11204

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 December 2024

Summary

The ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Version(s)

ForumWP – Forum & Discussion Board * <= 2.1.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forumwp/tags/2...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/forumwp/#developers

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Peter Thaleikis
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