CVE-2026-85235: wordpress forminator Cross-site Scripting

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-85235 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress forminator. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19.6% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 1.57.2.1.

Timeline

1. 01-10-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 01-10-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.