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Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress vulnerable to malicious scripts via form links

CVE-2026-4406
Summary

A weakness in the Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress allows hackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages by tricking users into clicking on links. This can cause problems for unauthenticated visitors, but not for users who are logged in. To stay safe, update to the latest version of the plugin.

Original title
The Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the `form_ids` parameter in the `gform_get_config` AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.3...
Original description
The Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the `form_ids` parameter in the `gform_get_config` AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.30. This is due to the `GFCommon::send_json()` method outputting JSON-encoded data wrapped in HTML comment delimiters using `echo` and `wp_die()`, which serves the response with a `Content-Type: text/html` header instead of `application/json`. The `wp_json_encode()` function does not HTML-encode angle brackets within JSON string values, allowing injected HTML/script tags in `form_ids` array values to be parsed and executed by the browser. The required `config_nonce` is generated with `wp_create_nonce('gform_config_ajax')` and is publicly embedded on every page that renders a Gravity Forms form, making it identical for all unauthenticated visitors within the same 12-hour nonce tick. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This vulnerability cannot be exploited against users who are authenticated on the target system, but could be used to alter the target page.
nvd CVSS3.1 4.7
Vulnerability type
CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Published: 8 Apr 2026 · Updated: 8 Apr 2026 · First seen: 8 Apr 2026