VulnerabilityPublished 7 May 2026

CVE-2026-6222: The Forminator Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and

Source GCVE Database

Authoritative record:CVE-2026-6222· Medium 5.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium.

Data as of 27 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.3Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: High
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: High: A successful attack depends on conditions beyond the attacker's control. That is, a successful attack cannot be accomplished at will, but requires the attacker to invest in some measurable amount of effort in preparation or execution against the vulnerable component before a successful attack can be expected. For example, a successful attack may require an attacker to: gather knowledge about the environment in which the vulnerable target/component exists; prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability; or inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim in order to read and/or modify network communications (e.g., a man in the middle attack).
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 7 May 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

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What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
wpmudevForminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder	Affected <=1.51.1	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, restrict access to Forminator admin pages and roles carefully, and monitor for updates from the vendor. Avoid granting unnecessary permissions to low-privilege users. Consider disabling or restricting the plugin if sensitive data exposure risk is unacceptable.

Description

The Forminator Forms plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.51.1 suffers from a Missing Authorization vulnerability. This flaw allows authenticated users with low privileges, such as subscribers or custom roles restricted to Templates or Reports, to perform sensitive module-management actions without proper capability checks. Actions affected include exporting form configurations, deleting modules or entries, cloning modules, and changing publish status. The vulnerability arises because the processRequest() method only verifies a nonce but not user capabilities, and the nonce is accessible on admin pages even to low-privilege users.

Impact

Authenticated users with subscriber-level or similarly low privileges can bypass intended access controls to export sensitive internal configurations (including integration credentials), delete modules and entries, clone modules, and change publish status of forms. This compromises confidentiality and integrity of form data and configurations but does not affect availability. The CVSS score is 5.3 (medium severity) reflecting the moderate complexity and limited privileges required for exploitation.

Summary

CVE-2026-6222 describes a Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Forminator Forms WordPress plugin up to version 1.51.1. The processRequest() method in Forminator_Admin_Module_Edit_Page dispatches sensitive actions after verifying only a nonce (forminator_form_request) without checking if the user has the manage_forminator_modules capability. The nonce is embedded in the global JavaScript object on all Forminator admin pages, including those accessible to users without module-management permissions. Since processRequest() is called during the admin_menu hook, before WordPress enforces page-level capability checks, low-privilege authenticated users can craft POST requests to export, delete, clone, or bulk-modify modules and entries, leading to unauthorized access and modification of form configurations and data.

CWE-862Missing Authorization (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #4OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.2 (opens in a new tab)
V7.2.2 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Exploitation of Thunderbolt Protection Flaws (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 27 Oct 2026, 02:39 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-862

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