WP Zendesk for Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor, Formidable and Ninja Forms Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the WP Zendesk for Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor, Formidable, and Ninja Forms plugins for WordPress. This vulnerability affects all versions through 1.1.5 and arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. As a result, unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute when users access the affected pages.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the page.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the plugin to version 1.1.6 or a newer patched version.