Formwork Improperly Manages Privileges During User Creation
Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). In versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.3, the application fails to properly enforce role-based authorization during account creation. Although the system validates that the specified role exists, it does not verify whether the current user has sufficient privileges to assign highly privileged roles such as admin. As a result, an authenticated user with the editor role can create a new account with administrative privileges, leading to full administrative access and complete compromise of the CMS. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.4.
Formwork CMS Has a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Blog Tags
Formwork is a flat file-based Content Management System (CMS). Prior to version 2.2.0, inserting unsanitized data into the blog tag field results in stored cross‑site scripting (XSS). Any user with credentials to the Formwork CMS who accesses or edits an affected blog post will have attacker‑controlled script executed in their browser. The issue is persistent and impacts privileged administrative workflows. This issue has been patched in version 2.2.0.
Formwork improperly validates input of User role preventing site and panel availability
### Summary
Improper validation of select fields allows attackers to craft an input that crashes the system, resulting in a 500 status and making the entire site and administration panel unavailable.
This clearly impacts the Availability aspect of the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, and availability), although the attack still has certain limitations.
### Details
The attack involves injecting any invalid user role value. Doing this will change the users data in a way that prevents users and then the entire site from loading. Even though the actual data change is minimal, the error is unrecoverable until a valid role parameter is resto
Formwork has a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Site title
### Summary
The site title field at /panel/options/site/allows embedding JS tags, which can be used to attack all members of the system. This is a widespread attack and can cause significant damage if there is a considerable number of users.
### Impact
The attack is widespread, leveraging what XSS can do. This will undoubtedly impact system availability.
### Patches
- [**Formwork 2.x** (aa3e9c6)](https://github.com/getformwork/formwork/commit/aa3e9c684035d9e8495169fde7c57d97faa3f9a2) escapes site title from panel header navigation.
### Details
By embedding "<!--", the source code can be rendered non-functional, significantly impacting s
Formwork has a Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Description metadata
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.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Edit function of Formwork before 1.13.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Content field.
A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the component /formwork/panel/dashboard of Formwork v1.12.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Page title parameter.