What is CVE-2024-37160?

CVE-2024-37160 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Formwork Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-06-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-37160?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Formwork Project

CVE-2024-37160

Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). An attackers (requires administrator privilege) to execute arbitrary web scripts by modifying site options via /panel/options/site. This type of attack is suitable for persistence, affecting visitors across all pages (except the dashboard). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.1.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-06-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 37.8% 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

Formwork Project
Getformwork Formwork — versions < 1.13.1, = 2.0.0-beta.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/getformwork/formwork/security/advisories/GHSA-5pxr-7m4j-jjc6 (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/getformwork/formwork/commit/9d471204f7ebb51c3c27131581c2b834315b5e0b (Patch)
github.com/getformwork/formwork/commit/f5312015a5a5e89b95ef2bd07e496f8474d579c5 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37160?: CVE-2024-37160 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Formwork Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-06-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-37160?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.