CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-8871
The Formidable Kinetic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'kinetic_link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.01. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes (notably 'window', 'class', and 'label') in the FrmKinetic::link() function, which are concatenated directly into HTML attributes of an anchor tag. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access a
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Formidable Kinetic","vendor":"thomstark","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"1.1.01","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:afabc2adb6e55843234b1e1c5e67aa020f61f35a3f1db8474c8781edb5acd062 · sha256:4d1346c04bbd2412… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:afabc2adb6e55843234b1e1c5e67aa020f61f35a3f1db8474c8781edb5acd062 · sha256:4d1346c04bbd2412… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
3 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable-kinetic/trunk/formidable-kinetic.php#L34"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:afabc2adb6e55843234b1e1c5e67aa020f61f35a3f1db8474c8781edb5acd062 · sha256:4d1346c04bbd2412… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/formidable-kinetic/trunk/formidable-kinetic.php#L70"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:afabc2adb6e55843234b1e1c5e67aa020f61f35a3f1db8474c8781edb5acd062 · sha256:4d1346c04bbd2412… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f849ec6-1c90-4f98-a367-fea87ddc5870?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:afabc2adb6e55843234b1e1c5e67aa020f61f35a3f1db8474c8781edb5acd062 · sha256:4d1346c04bbd2412… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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