CVE-2026-85235CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-85235

High · published October 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00284 · 19.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-10-01T13:17Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 OCT 03:46Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 01 OCT 08:28Z
    Forminator Forms <= 1.57.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field
    cvelistv5