yayforms Yay Forms Plugin up to 1.2.1 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in yayforms Yay Forms Plugin up to 1.2.1 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is the function yayforms of the component Shortcode Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-12522. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in yayforms Yay Forms Plugin up to 1.2.1 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function yayforms of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Yay! Forms | Embed Custom Forms, Surveys, and Quizzes Easily plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'yayforms' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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.

The weakness was released by Peter Thaleikis. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12522 since 12/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• yayforms

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• Yay Forms Plugin

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• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1

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