CVE-2026-18331
The Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'frm_user_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.33.1 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.
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By forging frm_user_id to match an administrator's user ID — discoverable via the public WordPress REST API — an unauthenticated attacker causes wp_kses_post() to serve as the only output filter, which preserves the injected payload structurally intact; the plugin's admin JavaScript then decodes and executes it automatically on page load.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.2
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.41%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 33
- Fecha de la puntuación: 4/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access60 % - Impacto principal
T1059.007JavaScriptexecution55 %
Inferido por reglas deterministas a partir del vector CVSS y la CWE. Solo orientativo.
🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-79
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/controllers/FrmEntriesController.php#L752
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/controllers/FrmHooksController.php#L69
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/models/FrmEntry.php#L819
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/models/FrmEntry.php#L846
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/models/FrmEntry.php#L982
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/models/fields/FrmFieldType.php#L1830
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/classes/models/fields/FrmFieldType.php#L2083
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable/trunk/js/formidable_admin.js#L1
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f03b09ad-257c-48c9-8ecc-36f60f178f80?source=cve
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