Stored XSS via unescaped form settings
Published Aug 30, 2023 · Updated Apr 23, 2025
Stored XSS in FormCraft – Form Builder before 1.2.7 allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts through saved form settings. Custom-message text and email-field labels accept script markup and later render it without sanitization or output escaping. Administrator access is required, and a viewer must open the affected form or submission for the stored script to run in that browser.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in FormCraft – Form Builder before 1.2.7 allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts through saved form settings. Custom-message text and email-field labels accept script markup and later render it without sanitization or output escaping. Administrator access is required, and a viewer must open the affected form or submission for the stored script to run in that browser.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-3501
- Published
- Aug 30, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Vendor
- Formcrafts
- Product
- FormCraft – Form Builder
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 30, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.2.7
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- WPScan two-path stored-XSS proof of conceptproof of concept · validated
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