#VU110246 Stored cross-site scripting in Formality - CVE-2025-3858
Published: June 6, 2025
Formality
Michele Giorgi
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "align" parameter. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
External links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formality/trunk/public/class-formality-form.php#L137
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3285036/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/formality/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e25157d3-42ac-4dd6-a736-5623a16e5629?source=cve