Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-11581 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-11581 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-11581?
- Informational severity, with a CVSS score of 5.9, published 30 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Kali Forms < 2.4.13.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-11581?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-11581 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-11581?
- Check whether you run Kali Forms at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The Kali Forms plugin fails to sanitize form field captions before displaying them as column headers on the administrator's form-entries screen. While Contributors are normally restricted from publishing forms, a missing capability check in the 'kaliforms_duplicate_post' AJAX action allows them to bypass this restriction and publish a malicious draft. An attacker can use the WordPress REST API to inject a payload into the 'kaliforms_field_components' meta field and then use the duplication flaw to ensure the form is rendered for an administrator. This results in Stored XSS (CWE-79) that can be used for privilege escalation, such as creating a new administrator account via the wp.apiFetch API.
Affected products
- Kali Forms Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder < 2.4.13
Timeline
- 2026-06-09: disclosed: Initial public disclosure by WPScan
- 2026-06-30: advisory: NVD publication date