CVE-2026-18409CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-18409

High · published August 21, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The WPForms Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Single Line Text and Paragraph Text Field Values in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0.2 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. The exploit relies on the plugin's own wp_kses_allowed_html filter widening the 'post' allowlist to permit iframe elements with a data-src attribute, which is not on WordPress's URI-attribute sanitization list, allowing a javascript: URI stored in data-src to survive kses processing and subsequently be promoted to a live src attribute by the bundled admin script view-entry.min.js.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00342 · 26.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-08-21T08:18Z
References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 03:37Z
    WPForms Pro <= 2.0.0.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Single Line Text and Paragraph Text Field Values
    cvelistv5