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CVE-2024-12749: Competition Form <= 2.0 - Reflected XSS

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Competition Form WordPress plugin through 2.0 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Affected products

• Competition Form: through 2.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/478316b9-9f47-4aa6-92c6-03879f16a3e5/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/478316b9-9f47-4aa6-92c6-03879f16a3e5/

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