The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution in versions up to, and including, 1.58.1. This is due to the forminator_replace_quiz_form_data() helper invoking do_shortcode() on the fully expanded notification body once the {quiz_result} merge tag has been substituted, while the earlier-substituted {user_agent} and {refer_url} merge tags carry unauthenticated attacker-controlled bytes (the User-Agent header and the referer_url POST parameter) through sanitize_text_field()/esc_html(), neither of which strip the '[' and ']' shortcode delimiters. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary WordPress shortcodes registered on the site by submitting a quiz whose notification template contains {quiz_result}; the resulting impact depends on the shortcodes exposed by other installed plugins/themes and can range from arbitrary content injection to information disclosure.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 15:16
- First seenCVSS 6.5NVD modified 2026-10-16 05:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.3/library/abstracts/abstract-class-front-action.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.3/library/helpers/helper-fields.php#L1476
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.3/library/helpers/helper-fields.php#L1652
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.3/library/helpers/helper-fields.php#L2965
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.57.3/library/modules/quizzes/front/front-mail.php#L36
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3745883%40forminator&new=3745883%40forminator
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/27640d44-1474-416a-8efd-e9524f9d3c7f?source=cve