Cross-site scripting in Caldera Forms - More Than Contact Forms - CVE-2018-7747
Published: August 2, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19661
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7747
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the Caldera Forms plugin before 1.6.0-rc.1 for WordPress when processing vectors involving (1) a greeting message, (2) the email transaction log, or (3) an imported form. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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.
Affected software
Caldera Forms - More Than Contact Forms
How to mitigate CVE-2018-7747
Update to version 1.6.0.
Caldera Forms - More Than Contact Forms - update to 1.6.0