Formidable Forms <= 6.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 6.7.1
- Affected Plugin
- Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More
- Affected Version
<= 6.7- CVSS
- 4.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2023-6842
At a glance
CVE-2023-6842 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Formidable Forms WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.7. It carries a CVSS score of 4.4 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Administrator level or above. The issue is fixed in version 6.7.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2024, reported by drop.
Vulnerability Overview
The Formidable Forms – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the name field label and description field label parameter in all versions up to 6.7 (inclusive) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. By default, this only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. However, in the formidable settings admins can extend form creation, deletion and other management permissions to other user types, which makes it possible for this vulnerability to be exploited by lower level user types as long as they have been granted the proper permissions.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Formidable Forms <= 6.7 takes an account at Administrator level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Formidable Forms the fix is 6.7.1: builds <= 6.7 are affected, anything from 6.7.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 6.7.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Formidable Forms 6.7.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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