CVE-2026-7052

HT Contact Form <= 2.8.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload Field

2026-05-27 18:06
Azril Fathoni (kiseki)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.8.3
Affected Plugin
HT Contact Form – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress
Affected Version
<= 2.8.2
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2026-7052
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At a glance

CVE-2026-7052 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the HT Contact Form WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.8.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.8.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2026, reported by Azril Fathoni (kiseki).

Vulnerability Overview

The HT Contact Form – Drag & Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'file_upload' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 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 'Store Submissions' setting to be enabled, as this controls whether unsanitized field values are persisted to the database and subsequently rendered via dangerouslySetInnerHTML in the admin entry viewer.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

HT Contact Form <= 2.8.2 carries this weakness at file_upload, and reaching it takes no account at all. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For HT Contact Form the fix is 2.8.3: builds <= 2.8.2 are affected, anything from 2.8.3 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.8.3, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: HT Contact Form 2.8.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-7052https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edb0ee0c-1eab-4988-9eb6-cc0c253fee15https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7052

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