What is CVE-2024-7056?

CVE-2024-7056 is a low-severity vulnerability in Wpforms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2024-11-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-7056?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.

XSS in Wpforms

CVE-2024-7056

The WPForms WordPress plugin before 1.9.1.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as Admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-11-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (38.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 38.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Wpforms
Wpforms — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/467af13e-25bd-425c-929d-5dd06e28d595/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-7056?: CVE-2024-7056 is a low-severity vulnerability in Wpforms, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2024-11-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-7056?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.