The Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Notification Smartcode Values in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in the browser of an administrator (or any user with the Fluent Forms entry-viewing capability) when they view the form's entry Submission Logs in the WordPress admin dashboard. Exploitation requires that a site administrator or Fluent Forms manager has configured an email notification whose subject or static (direct) Send To value references an attacker-influenced Smartcode such as an input_password field value, a cookie value, or submission.response.
CVE-2026-18146
Score 7.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.2; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.2
- EG Score
- 7.2(high)
- EG Risk
- 48(Track)EG Risk 48/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity72% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 29%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 13, 2026
Last Modified
August 14, 2026
References (9)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fluentform/tags/6.2.8/app/Services/FormBuilder/Notifications/EmailNotification.php#L196
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fluentform/tags/6.2.8/app/Services/FormBuilder/ShortCodeParser.php#L142
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fluentform/tags/6.2.8/app/Services/FormBuilder/ShortCodeParser.php#L145
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fluentform/tags/6.2.8/assets/js/form_entries.js#L2
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fluentform/tags/6.2.8/boot/globals.php#L98
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3640683/fluentform/trunk/app/Services/FormBuilder/ShortCodeParser.php
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ffluentform/tags/6.2.11&new_path=%2Ffluentform/tags/6.2.12
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3640683%40fluentform%2Ftags%2F6.2.12&old=3632883%40fluentform%2Ftags%2F6.2.11
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/643f92e2-b14e-4056-97fc-1c631027c54f?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18146(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 29× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-21 08:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 08:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 19:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 07:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 19:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 19:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 19:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 19:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 19:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 19:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 07:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 19:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 07:22 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-15 07:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 19:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 13:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 01:21 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 01:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 13:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 13:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 07:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 06:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 06:43 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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