What is CVE-2024-11223?

CVE-2024-11223 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpforms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2024-11223?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-11223 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wpforms

CVE-2024-11223

The WPForms WordPress plugin before 1.9.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-12-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (40.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 40.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wpforms
Wpforms — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/82989909-9745-4c9a-abc7-c1adf8c2b047/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-11223?: CVE-2024-11223 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpforms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2024-11223?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-11223 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.