CVE-2026-5461
Forminator Forms <= 1.55.0.2 - Unauthenticated Limited File Deletion via Draft Upload Metadata
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.29%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 78% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Forminator Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited File Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.55.0.2. This is due to the plugin accepting arbitrary upload field metadata from POST requests in draft submissions without proper validation, which is then used to delete files when a subsequent draft references the poisoned draft via the previous_draft_id parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary non-PHP files within the wp-content/uploads/ directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 78% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
wpmudev · Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- affected ≤ 1.55.0.2
References
References8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/de1aaacf-8fe1-4a1e-9846-f78cc469ec20?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/trunk/library/model/class-form-entry-model.php#L1387 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.52.0/library/model/class-form-entry-model.php#L1387 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/trunk/library/modules/custom-forms/front/front-action.php#L692 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.52.0/library/modules/custom-forms/front/front-action.php#L692 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/trunk/library/model/class-form-entry-model.php#L2975 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/forminator/tags/1.52.0/library/model/class-form-entry-model.php#L2975 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3593819%40forminator&new=3593819%40forminator (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-113708 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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