WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Frontend Content Forms for User Submissions (UGC) < 2.8.14 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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 'bf_new_submission_link' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.13 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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.8.14

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Max Boll (_b0lli)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-01-30 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2025-01-30 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-01-31 (about 1 year ago)

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