CVE-2026-85235
Forminator Forms <= 1.57.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.57.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Successful exploitation requires an administrator to open the stored submission entry in the Forminator Entries view and interact with the planted link, at which point WordPress core's jQuery-based click handler on `.contextual-help-tabs a` evaluates the entity-decoded href as HTML, firing the attacker's payload in the administrator's authenticated wp-admin session.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.28% · top 79% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
wpmudev · Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- affected ≤ 1.57.2
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ff3d390-ad00-4233-ab25-f1afb679300e?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L213 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/helpers/helper-forms.php#L1295 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/fields/textarea.php#L405 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3700709%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2.1&old=3668424%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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