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CVE-2026-85235

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.28% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-10-01 · Last synced 2026-10-07

CyberRota Analysis

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The Forminator Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, affecting all versions up to and including 1.57.2. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute when an administrator interacts with the compromised submission entry in the admin panel. WordPress site administrators using this plugin should prioritize patching to mitigate the risk of exploitation.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2026-85235
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.28%
WordPress

Original NVD 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.