Everest Forms < 3.0.3.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8542",
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    "title": "Everest Forms < 3.0.3.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS",
    "summary": "The Everest Forms WordPress plugin before 3.0.3.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).",
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