CVE-2024-12038 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-12038

Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buddyforms_nav' Shortcode

6.4 CVSS

Vulnerability 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 'buddyforms_nav' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.15 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Max Boll

References

More from themekraft

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BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages <= 3.4.25 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Settings Update

Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

BuddyForms <= 2.8.9 - Email Verification Bypass due to Insufficient Randomness

BuddyPress WooCommerce My Account Integration. Create WooCommerce Member Pages <= 3.4.20 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) PHP Object Injection in get_simple_request

Post Form – Registration Form – Profile Form for User Profiles – Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Deletion

Affected Vendor

themekraft

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Affected Software

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

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 22nd, 2025

Last Modified: June 4th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise

T1059.007 JavaScript

T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

T1213 Data from Information Repositories

T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service

T1491.001 Defacement