CVE-2024-9940: CWE-75 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in codepeople Calculated Fields Form
The Calculated Fields Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.45. This is due to the plugin not properly neutralizing HTML elements from submitted forms. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML that will render when the administrator views form submissions in their email.
CVE-2024-9940: CWE-75 Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in codepeople Calculated Fields Form
Description
The Calculated Fields Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.45. This is due to the plugin not properly neutralizing HTML elements from submitted forms. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML that will render when the administrator views form submissions in their email.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-10-14T16:00:44.204Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6b65b7ef31ef0b554fb4
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:36:37 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 7:02:40 AM
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