High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2026· Updated Aug 28, 2026
CVE-2026-18324
CVE-2026-18324
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=1.57.0.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
13- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/build/js/shared-ui.min.jsnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/fields/textarea.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.55.1/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/admin/views/custom-form/entries/content-details.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/build/js/shared-ui.min.jsnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/fields/textarea.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.56.0/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3652712/forminator/trunk/library/modules/custom-forms/admin/admin-page-entries.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f8a0704-1c06-4342-b05a-7bd815a87833nvd
News mentions
2- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Sep 3, 2026
- WordPress: 25 Plugin Vulnerabilities Including Critical RCE Disclosed in Single BatchVypr Intelligence · Aug 28, 2026