What is CVE-2024-12522?

CVE-2024-12522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yayforms Yay! Forms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-02-19.

How severe is CVE-2024-12522?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-12522 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Yayforms Yay! Forms

CVE-2024-12522

The Yay! Forms | Embed Custom Forms, Surveys, and Quizzes Easily plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'yayforms' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Yayforms Yay! Forms — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12522?: CVE-2024-12522 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Yayforms Yay! Forms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-02-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-12522?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12522 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.