Description
The Formidable Kinetic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'kinetic_link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.01. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes (notably 'window', 'class', and 'label') in the FrmKinetic::link() function, which are concatenated directly into HTML attributes of an anchor tag. 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.
Published: 2026-05-27
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Wed, 27 May 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 27 May 2026 10:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Thomstark
Thomstark formidable Kinetic
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Thomstark
Thomstark formidable Kinetic
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Wed, 27 May 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The Formidable Kinetic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'kinetic_link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.01. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes (notably 'window', 'class', and 'label') in the FrmKinetic::link() function, which are concatenated directly into HTML attributes of an anchor tag. 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.
Title Formidable Kinetic <= 1.1.01 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Thomstark Formidable Kinetic
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-27T10:35:27.070Z

Reserved: 2026-05-18T20:23:02.719Z

Link: CVE-2026-8871

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-27T10:35:21.983Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-27T07:16:16.623

Modified: 2026-06-17T11:04:33.000

Link: CVE-2026-8871

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No data.

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Updated: 2026-05-27T10:07:16Z

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