Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.13 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-12037
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 30, 2025
Last Updated January 31, 2025
Researcher Max Boll (_b0lli) - Max Boll - IT Security

Description

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.

Learn more about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.

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Vulnerability Details for Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buddyforms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.8.14, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.13
Patched Version
  • 2.8.14

Recent vulnerabilities in Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC)

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 BuddyForms <= 2.9.0 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-62973 5.3 Nabil Irawan October 19, 2025
2 BuddyForms <= 2.8.17 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion CVE-2025-32151 8.8 LVT-tholv2k April 4, 2025
3 Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buddyforms_nav' Shortcode CVE-2024-12038 6.4 Max Boll (_b0lli) February 21, 2025
4 BuddyForms <= 2.8.12 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-47377 4.4 SOPROBRO September 30, 2024
5 Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation CVE-2024-8246 8.8 wesley (wcraft) September 13, 2024
6 BuddyForms <= 2.8.9 - Email Verification Bypass due to Insufficient Randomness CVE-2024-5149 6.5 István Márton June 4, 2024
7 BuddyForms <= 2.8.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read and Server-Side Request Forgery CVE-2024-32830 9.3 beluga April 22, 2024
8 BuddyForms <= 2.8.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via page CVE-2024-30198 6.1 Dimas Maulana March 25, 2024
9 Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Upload CVE-2024-1169 7.5 Lucio Sá March 6, 2024
10 Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization CVE-2024-1158 4.3 Lucio Sá March 6, 2024

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