WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-9017 Deferred

NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress: A security weakness

NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 9.2.2.

CVE / CNA score 5.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress
Plugin slug
nex-forms-express-wp-form-builder
Affected
<= 9.2.2
Safe version
> 9.2.2
Published
Jul 11, 2026
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Jul 11, 2026 and is one of 33 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress to a release after 9.2.2, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 9.2.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the saved_admin_email, saved_user_email, and saved_user_email_address fields of arbitrary form entries belonging to other users, and cause the site to dispatch attacker-controlled email content to attacker-chosen recipient addresses.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources