CVE-2022-1569: WordPress Forms by Pie Forms < 1.4.9.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Drag & Drop Builder, Human Face Detector, Pre-built Templates, Spam Protection, User Email Notifications & more! WordPress plugin before 1.4.9.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its form fields, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

Drag & Drop Builder, Human Face Detector, Pre-built Templates, Spam Protection, User Email Notifications & more!: before 1.4.9.4 — fixed in 1.4.9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drag & Drop Builder, Human Face Detector, Pre-built Templates, Spam Protection, User Email Notifications & more! 1.4.9.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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