MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-86799 (CVSS 8.8)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 14, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.2%

The Forms WordPress plugin before 3.0.2 does not sanitise submitted form values on storage, nor escape them before outputting them on the form submissions screen in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated users to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute in the browser of any administrator viewing the submissions.

Technical details

CVSS

8.8

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:HighI:HighA:High

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