---
id: CVE-2026-85235
title: >-
  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…
summary: >-
  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…
severity: high
cvss: 7.2
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
vendor: wpmudev
product: 'Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder'
affected:
  - forminator_forms_contact_form_payment_form_custom_form_builder <= 1.57.2
published: '2026-10-01'
updated: '2026-10-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-01T09:17:09.400'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85235'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.php#L213
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/fields/textarea.php#L405
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.1/library/helpers/helper-forms.php#L1295
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3700709%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2.1&old=3668424%40forminator%2Ftags%2F1.57.2
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ff3d390-ad00-4233-ab25-f1afb679300e?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-10-01T09:41:14.156Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.