🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-12038

MEDIUM 6.4

Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buddyforms_nav' Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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 'buddyforms_nav' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.15 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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor themekraft
Product post form – registration form – profile form for user profiles – frontend content forms for user submissions (ugc)
Published Feb 22, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

themekraft / Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)
0 ≤ 2.8.15

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff0568e2-3a1e-4ed6-835a-37e3d07d7b63?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3244167/buddyforms/trunk/includes/shortcodes.php

Credits

Max Boll