CVE-2026-97661
Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 <= 1.2.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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. Exploitation requires the Payments module to be enabled and a form to be configured to accept both PayPal and Stripe as payment gateways.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (7 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
scottpaterson · Business Essentials for Contact Form 7
- affected ≤ 1.2.1
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e6a60043-a060-472b-9b43-e82a4d2420b0?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/redirect_methods.php#L205 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/functions.php#L15 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/cpt.php#L313 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3713721/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page (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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