CVE-2026-85235

HIGHPre-NVD 7.27.2—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-01. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 7.2Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.57.2 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. Successful exploitation requires an administrator to open the stored submission entry in the Forminator Entries view and interact with the planted link, at which point WordPress core's jQuery-based click handler on .contextual-help-tabs a evaluates the entity-decoded href as HTML, firing the attacker's payload in the administrator's authenticated wp-admin session.

CVSS v3
7.2
EG Score
7.2HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
37
EG Risk 37/100CISA SSVC

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 computed
Severity72% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
18th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 1, 2026

Last Modified

October 1, 2026

References (6)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-85235(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 16× in last 7d / 16× 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.

  1. 2026-10-04 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-04 02:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 15:07 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 15:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-10-03 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-10-02 17:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-02 06:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-01 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-01 12:48 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-01 12:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-01 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-01 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-01 08:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-85235?
CVE-2026-85235 is a high vulnerability published on October 1, 2026. The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich-Text Textarea Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.57.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for…
When was CVE-2026-85235 disclosed?
CVE-2026-85235 was first published on October 1, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-85235 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-85235 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (18th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-85235?
CVE-2026-85235 has a CVSS base score of 7.2 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-85235?
No fix for CVE-2026-85235 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-85235 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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