# CVE-2024-3053: Cross-site scripting in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

> Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the forminator_form shortcode, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jfx7-45mm-rw3j

## What is CVE-2024-3053?

CVE-2024-3053 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Forminator – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ forminator_form shortcode attribute in versions up to, and including, 1.29.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3053?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Incsub Forminator.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-3053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-3053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder

- [CVE-2023-4596](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4596/): Forminator <= 1.24.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-6463](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6463/): Path traversal in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2025-6464](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6464/): Deserialization in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-7389](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7389/): Forminator <= 1.29.1 - HubSpot Developer API Key Sensitive Information Exposure (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-31077](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31077/): SQL injection in Forminator (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-3053 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-3053 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpmudev Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3053/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3053/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3053
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3053
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3053

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3053/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.