High severity · published Oct 1, 2026
CVE-2026-85235
Forminator Forms <= 1.57.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field
7.2
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FF
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder · wpmudev
through 1.57.2 · source: vendor
Affected product
FF
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
wpmudev
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85235
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85235
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ff3d390-ad00-4233-ab25-f1afb679300e?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L213
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/helpers/helper-forms.php#L1295
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/fields/textarea.php#L405
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3700709%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2.1&old=3668424%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2
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