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CVE-2026-118500: The Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based...

MEDIUM CVSS 0.0 EPSS 0.22%

Published: October 30, 2026 | Last Modified: October 30, 2026

Description

The Cool FormKit Lite – Advanced Form Builder for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the '_elementor_data.form_fields[].custom_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The esc_html() call applied at server emission is bypassed because the HTML fragment-serialization algorithm restores " to a raw double-quote inside text nodes when jQuery .html() extracts the template, allowing the attacker-controlled custom_id to break out of an HTML attribute context within the plugin's own frontend script.

Ghostwire Analysis — What This Means Practically

Exploitation Probability (EPSS): Low — 0.22% (12th percentile)

Low exploitation probability based on current threat landscape data. Standard patching timeline is appropriate.

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