CVE-2026-5169

medium

Description

The Inquiry Form to Posts or Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Form Header' field in versions up to and including 1.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization when saving via update_option() and lack of output escaping when displaying the stored value. The vulnerability exists in two locations: (1) the plugin settings page at inq_form.php line 180 where the value is echoed into an HTML attribute without esc_attr(), and (2) the front-end shortcode output at inquery_form_to_posts_or_pages.php line 139 where the value is output in HTML content without esc_html(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses the plugin settings page or views a page containing the [inquiry_form] shortcode.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/743788ed-bd40-4eb4-a27e-d4eb89df3a41?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/trunk/inquery_form_to_posts_or_pages.php#L139

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/trunk/inq_form.php#L63

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/trunk/inq_form.php#L180

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/tags/1.0/inquery_form_to_posts_or_pages.php#L139

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/tags/1.0/inq_form.php#L63

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/inquiry-form-to-posts-or-pages/tags/1.0/inq_form.php#L180

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-08

Updated: 2026-04-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00033