CVE-2026-97661

HIGH 7.2

Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 <= 1.2.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field

CVSS Score

7.2

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

The Business Essentials for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gateway' Form Field in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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. Exploitation requires the Payments module to be enabled and a form to be configured to accept both PayPal and Stripe as payment gateways.

CWE	CWE-79
Vendor	scottpaterson
Product	business essentials for contact form 7
Published	Oct 1, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

scottpaterson / Business Essentials for Contact Form 7

0 ≤ 1.2.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

Credits

Adrien Brunner