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, 1.57.0.1 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 that the targeted Textarea field has the Rich-Text editor option enabled.
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L211 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/build/js/shared-ui.min.js#L1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/fields/textarea.php#L411 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php#L338 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L211 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/build/js/shared-ui.min.js#L1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/fields/textarea.php#L411 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php#L338 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3652712/forminator/trunk/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fforminator/tags/1.57.0.1&new_path=%2Fforminator/tags/1.57.0.2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f8a0704-1c06-4342-b05a-7bd815a87833?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpmudev
Wpmudev forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpmudev
Wpmudev forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000

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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, 1.57.0.1 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 that the targeted Textarea field has the Rich-Text editor option enabled.
Title Forminator Forms <= 1.57.0.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-28T15:14:18.901Z

Reserved: 2026-07-29T19:30:56.858Z

Link: CVE-2026-18324

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T15:14:11.666Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-28T05:16:41.797

Modified: 2026-08-28T16:17:07.870

Link: CVE-2026-18324

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-28T14:45:06Z

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