CVE-2026-18324

Forminator Forms <= 1.57.0.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field

Published: Aug 28, 2026Updated: Aug 28, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-79

7.2HIGH

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:LIntegrity

Low

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

wpmudev

commercialaka broken link checker, forminator forms

Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form BuilderOn-premCMS Plugin

Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin

Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L211

plugins.trac.wordpress.org

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/build/js/shared-ui.min.js#L1

plugins.trac.wordpress.org

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127

plugins.trac.wordpress.org

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