# Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms

> Best WordPress contact form, newsletter form and payment form builder without the sucky stuff — lost emails, pesky spam, leaky privacy and outsourced …

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `happyforms`
- Author: Happyforms
- Version: 1.26.17
- Active installs: 20,000+
- Last update: 2026-10-05 (39 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.0, PHP 7.0
- Tags: contact form, custom form, form builder, forms, WordPress form plugin
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/happyforms/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 39 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Leaky ↔ Spam-proof, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Flaky ↔ Reliable, Phones home ↔ Private, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-21 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated HTML Injection (before 1.26.15). CVE-2026-14556, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad7c56bf-44e5-4eaf-8342-10e66ee49092?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-30 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 1.26.15). CVE-2026-97065, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4b86374a-8bae-4c97-8df5-e19a3a848a8b?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-10 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) Local File Inclusion (up to 1.26.12). CVE-2025-11977, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e31119ab-963d-48a4-9948-0a0dce761918?source=api-prod
- 2026-06-15 HIGH: Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (up to 1.26.13). CVE-2026-49768, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2bcb155d-a544-4315-921b-62a0bd6b1ca9?source=api-prod
- 2024-11-20 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 1.26.2). CVE-2024-10054, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/022ab125-d086-40bf-aafb-65059b3c455f?source=api-prod
- 2024-08-29 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 1.26.0). CVE-2024-44063, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/63f43fb9-3d8d-48ea-b760-0e068570b16d?source=api-prod
- 2024-01-31 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 1.25.10). CVE-2024-23521, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0578c49e-f820-42dd-bd53-f4a281843e69?source=api-prod
- 2023-11-27 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 1.25.9). CVE-2023-48752, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff986a66-93f7-4926-8818-7af745c0166c?source=api-prod
- 2023-01-13 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Blocks (up to 1.21.1). CVE-2023-0096, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72f1ffe1-d8af-4aa2-bc58-5f1cd4eaa856?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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