CVE-2021-38144
Published: 31 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-38144 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Formtools Core. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 35.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-24617
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in Form Tools through 3.0.20. A low-privileged user can trigger Reflected XSS when a viewing a form via the submission_id parameter, e.g., clients/forms/edit_submission.php?form_id=1&view_id=1&submission_id=[XSS].
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.