# CVE-2025-23041: Short and Long Answer Fields Are Not Validated Server-Side For Maximum Length in Umbraco.Forms

- Also known as: GHSA-9V8M-QV22-F268
- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.13.16, 10.5.7, 13.2.2, 14.1.2
- Published: 2025-01-14 · Updated: 2025-01-14

## Affected

- umbraco Umbraco.Forms.Issues: fixed in 8.13.16; from 10.0.0, fixed in 10.5.7; from 11.0.0, fixed in 13.2.2; from 14.0.0, fixed in 14.1.2
- Umbraco.Forms (NuGet): fixed in 10.5.7
- UmbracoForms (NuGet): fixed in 8.13.16
- Umbraco.Forms (NuGet): from 11.0.0-rc1, fixed in 13.2.2
- Umbraco.Forms (NuGet): from 14.0.0-beta001, fixed in 14.1.2

## Description

Umbraco.Forms is a web form framework written for the nuget ecosystem. Character limits configured by editors for short and long answer fields are validated only client-side, not server-side. This issue has been patched in versions 8.13.16, 10.5.7, 13.2.2, and 14.1.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on umbraco Umbraco.Forms.Issues, Umbraco.Forms, UmbracoForms, upgrade to a fixed version (8.13.16, 10.5.7, 13.2.2, 14.1.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco.Forms.Issues/security/advisories/GHSA-9v8m-qv22-f268

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