Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2024-3053

Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Published Apr 9, 2024 · catalog updated Apr 9, 2024 · Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress

Patch now

CVE-2024-3053 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.36%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
stated Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress · vendor Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress

The Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ forminator_form shortcode attribute in versions up to, and including, 1.29.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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  • stated Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress<= 1.29.2
  • vendor Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPressversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2024-3053

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2024-3053 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Forminator Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress <= 1.29.2. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.36%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

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Code

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No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Apr 9, 2024 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    The Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ forminator_form shortcode attribute in versions up to, and including, 1.29.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary

  2. Apr 9, 2024 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2024-3053

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2024-3053

    30-day exploitation probability 0.4%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2024-3053

    The Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ forminator_form shortcode attribute in versions up to, and including, 1.29.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.