CVE-2026-97661
The Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site…
- Risk score
- 51/100
- CVSS
- 7.2 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 1 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scri…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.2 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/cpt.php#L313
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/functions.php#L15
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page/tags/1.2.1/includes/modules/payments/redirect_methods.php#L205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3713721/cf7-redirect-thank-you-page
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e6a60043-a060-472b-9b43-e82a4d2420b0?source=cve
Original description
The Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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. Exploitation requires the Payments module to be enabled and a form to be configured to accept both PayPal and Stripe as payment gateways.
Last activity 1 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.