CVE-2026-8891

Description

The BitForm plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'bitform' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes ('width' and 'height') in the Shortcode::shortcode() function, which are interpolated directly into the 'style' attribute of an <iframe> element. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71167dec-38ec-4eb3-8fab-25eca0f8b071?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bitform/tags/1.1.0/Common/Shortcode.php#L17
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bitform/tags/1.1.0/Common/Shortcode.php#L13
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bitform/tags/1.1.0/index.php#L54

CWEs

CWE-79

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