Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor <= 2.7.10 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
CVE-2026-121777Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.7.10Update to 2.7.11 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor extensions-for-elementor-form
- Affected≤ 2.7.10
- Patched in2.7.11
Update to 2.7.11 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.7.10. Version 2.7.11 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.7.11, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to neurotx.
The The Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.10. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
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 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Form Field custom_id Parameter ≤2.7.9Update to 2.7.10 | CVE-2026-118500 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.7.8Update to 2.7.9 | CVE-2026-97301 |
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Form Field custom_id Parameter
≤2.7.9Update to 2.7.10
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.7.8Update to 2.7.9
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- 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.