The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You: A security weakness
The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You
- Plugin slug
ninja-forms- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 29, 2024
This CVE was published Dec 29, 2024 and is one of 66 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
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.
Technical description
The The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.22. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L