CVE-2023-0084

Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder <= 3.1.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2023-02-02 00:00
Mohammed El Amin, Chemouri

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.2.0
Affected Plugin
MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Conditional Forms, Form Templates & Custom Form Builder for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 3.1.2
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2023-0084
View all MetForm – Contact Form, Survey, Quiz, Conditional Forms, Form Templates & Custom Form Builder for Elementor vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2023-0084 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the MetForm WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.2.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2023, reported by Mohammed El Amin, Chemouri.

Vulnerability Overview

The Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via text areas on forms in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, which is the submissions page.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in MetForm <= 3.1.2 takes no account at all. 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 MetForm the fix is 3.2.0: builds <= 3.1.2 are affected, anything from 3.2.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.2.0, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: MetForm 3.2.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0084https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05f7d9fe-e95f-4ddf-9bce-2aeac3c2e946https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0084

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