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CVE-2026-18324: Forminator Forms <= 1.57.0.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-28 · updated 2026-08-28
- Weakness: CWE-79
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.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L211
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/build/js/shared-ui.min.js#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/fields/textarea.php#L411
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php#L338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L211
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/build/js/shared-ui.min.js#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/fields/textarea.php#L411
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php#L338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3652712/forminator/trunk/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fforminator/tags/1.57.0.1&new_path=%2Fforminator/tags/1.57.0.2
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