High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published May 28, 2026· Updated May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-7052
CVE-2026-7052
Description
The HT Contact Form – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'file_upload' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 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. Exploitation requires the 'Store Submissions' setting to be enabled, as this controls whether unsanitized field values are persisted to the database and subsequently rendered via dangerouslySetInnerHTML in the admin entry viewer.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=2.8.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
12- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/tags/2.8.2/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/tags/2.8.2/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/tags/2.8.2/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/tags/2.8.2/admin/Includes/Models/Entries.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/tags/2.8.2/admin/dist/bundle.jsnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/trunk/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/trunk/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/trunk/admin/Includes/Api/Endpoints/Submission.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/trunk/admin/Includes/Models/Entries.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ht-contactform/trunk/admin/dist/bundle.jsnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edb0ee0c-1eab-4988-9eb6-cc0c253fee15nvd
News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 25, 2026 to May 31, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Jun 4, 2026