CVE-2024-11897

The Contact Form, Survey & Form Builder – MightyForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'mightyforms' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9 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.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mightyforms/trunk/shortcode.php#L13	Product
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mightyforms/	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c691e469-3bd2-415d-8feb-9ae94aeaf339?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mightyforms:mightyforms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

09 Jul 2025, 13:39

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Mightyforms mightyforms Mightyforms
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:mightyforms:mightyforms::::::wordpress::*
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mightyforms/trunk/shortcode.php#L13 -~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mightyforms/trunk/shortcode.php#L13 - Product
References	~~() https://wordpress.org/plugins/mightyforms/ -~~	() https://wordpress.org/plugins/mightyforms/ - Product
References	~~() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c691e469-3bd2-415d-8feb-9ae94aeaf339?source=cve -~~	() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c691e469-3bd2-415d-8feb-9ae94aeaf339?source=cve - Third Party Advisory

04 Dec 2024, 03:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-12-04 03:15

Updated : 2025-07-09 13:39

NVD link : CVE-2024-11897

Mitre link : CVE-2024-11897

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-11897

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mightyforms

mightyforms

CWE

CWE-79

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

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