Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat <= 2.5.7 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Form Color Parameters
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.5.8
- Affected Plugin
- Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List
- Affected Version
<= 2.5.7- CVSS
- 4.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2024-7489
At a glance
CVE-2024-7489 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.5.7. It carries a CVSS score of 4.4 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Editor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.5.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by mike harris (mikeyh).
Vulnerability Overview
The Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat – Grow Your MailChimp List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the form color parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with editor-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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 Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat <= 2.5.7 takes an account at Editor 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 Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat the fix is 2.5.8: builds <= 2.5.7 are affected, anything from 2.5.8 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.5.8, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Editor 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: Forms for Mailchimp by Optin Cat 2.5.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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