The WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'page_title' POST Parameter via {page_title} Smart Tag in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This is only exploitable on forms whose admin-authored confirmation message places the {page_title} Smart Tag inside an HTML attribute context.
CVE-2026-88996
MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.16.1—Trending — 3 sources updated this week
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence
Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-25. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.
Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: ghsa, secondary
6.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: —CVSS: 6.1Exploit: None knownExposed: 0
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.1
- EG Score
- 6.1(high)
- EG Risk
- 27(Track)EG Risk 27/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity61% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- —
- EPSS %ILE
- —
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 25, 2026
Last Modified
September 25, 2026
References (6)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforms-lite/tags/2.0.1.1/includes/class-process.php#L1718
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforms-lite/tags/2.0.1.1/src/Frontend/Classic.php#L297
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforms-lite/tags/2.0.1.1/src/SmartTags/SmartTag/PageTitle.php#L33
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforms-lite/tags/2.0.1.1/src/SmartTags/SmartTags.php#L482
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3709178%40wpforms-lite&new=3709178%40wpforms-lite
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a10570c-542a-494c-9dea-96a58b91139e?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-88996(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 7× in last 7d / 7× 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.
- 2026-09-25 11:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-25 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-25 10:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-25 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-25 08:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-25 07:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-25 07:46 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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Frequently asked(4)
What is CVE-2026-88996?
CVE-2026-88996 is a medium vulnerability published on September 25, 2026. The WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'pagetitle' POST Parameter via {pagetitle} Smart Tag in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 due to insufficient input…
When was CVE-2026-88996 disclosed?
CVE-2026-88996 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 25, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-88996?
CVE-2026-88996 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-88996?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-88996, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.
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