What the vulnerability does
01Description
The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Radio Field (Save and Continue Draft) in all versions up to, and including, 1.57.0.2 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. This is exploitable because the Save-and-Continue draft submission AJAX endpoint is registered as nopriv, allowing unauthenticated attackers to bypass radio field option-membership validation and persist a crafted payload that, when rendered on the Submissions admin page, is auto-executed via the bundled Inputmask library's data-attribute callback binding.
Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms
02Summary
Forminator Forms versions up to 1.57.0.2 contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users. The vulnerability requires no user interaction from the attacker and can affect multiple users across the site. Site administrators should update to a version newer than 1.57.0.2 immediately.
What an attacker can do
03Attacker Capabilities
Inject malicious JavaScript that runs in other users' browsers and steals their data or session tokens.
Potential impact on your site
04Site Impact
Visitors and site users could have their sessions hijacked, credentials stolen, or be redirected to malicious sites.
Conditions required to exploit
05Prerequisites
Network access only; no authentication or user interaction required.
Key dates
06Disclosure timeline
August 25, 2026
CVE published
