Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress <= 1.4.7.2 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting
5caa9c7c-07b3-4288-803f-f60e5b428953Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.4.8Update to 1.4.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.4
- CVSS
- 6.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More wpforms-lite
- Affected< 1.4.8
- Patched in1.4.8
Update to 1.4.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.4.8. Version 1.4.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.4.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to RIPS Technologies.
The Contact Form by WPForms – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the tab parameter in versions up to, and including 1.4.7. This makes it possible for lower-privileged attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in administrative pages that execute whenever a user accesses the page with the stored web scripts.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 28| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.0.3Update to 2.0.3.1 | CVE-2026-54851 | |
| Medium5.3 | 2.0.2.1 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass on Paid Forms 1.10.0.1 – 2.0.2.1Update to 2.0.2.2 | CVE-2026-82844 | |
| Medium4.7 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'query_var' Smart Tag in iframe srcdoc Attribute ≤2.0.2.1Update to 2.0.2.2 | CVE-2026-101921 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'page_title' POST Parameter ≤2.0.2Update to 2.0.2.1 | CVE-2026-88996 | |
| Medium6.5 | 2.0.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution 1.5.0.1 – 2.0.2Update to 2.0.2.1 | CVE-2026-84744 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.0.3Update to 2.0.3.1
- Medium5.32.0.2.1 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass on Paid Forms
1.10.0.1 – 2.0.2.1Update to 2.0.2.2
- Medium4.7Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'query_var' Smart Tag in iframe srcdoc Attribute
≤2.0.2.1Update to 2.0.2.2
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'page_title' POST Parameter
≤2.0.2Update to 2.0.2.1
- Medium6.52.0.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
1.5.0.1 – 2.0.2Update to 2.0.2.1
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
All Cross-Site Scripting| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.