CVE-2026-8901
Published: 06 June 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-8901 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 20.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-34941
Vulnerability details
The Integration for Freshsales – Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor, Gravity Forms and More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Form Submission Data in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15 due to insufficient input sanitization…
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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. The injected payload only executes when a CRM API call fails for the submitted form and an administrator subsequently views the error log details modal in the WordPress admin panel.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.