Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder: A security weakness
Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 09, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jan 09, 2026 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.49.1 via the 'listen_for_csv_export' function. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with access to the Forminator dashboard, to export sensitive form submission data including personally identifiable information.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N