CVE-2025-13861
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
17/12/2025
Last modified:
18/12/2025
Description
The HTML Forms – Simple WordPress Forms Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to and including 1.6.0 due to insufficient sanitization of fabricated file upload field metadata before displaying it in the WordPress admin dashboard. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute whenever an administrator accesses the form submissions page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html-forms/trunk/src/functions.php#L321
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html-forms/trunk/src/functions.php#L357
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3419926%40html-forms/trunk&old=3407043%40html-forms/trunk
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/52e2f1b9-d240-4813-9124-51bd6b047553?source=cve



