7.2
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-94504
Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.15.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description

Ninja Forms 3.15.3 stores an anonymous non-RTE textarea value and renders it without safe HTML encoding in the legacy submission editor. An attacker can break out of the textarea with stored script. When an Administrator opens the attacker-known direct submission URL, the script runs in the WordPress admin origin.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 22, 2026, 7:16 a.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 22, 2026, 7:16 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Update Ninja Forms to a version that properly sanitizes and encodes user input.
  • Update Ninja Forms plugin to the latest version.
  • Sanitize all user-provided data before rendering.
  • Encode output to prevent script execution.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2026-94504 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2026-94504 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Sep. 22, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Ninja Forms 3.15.3 stores an anonymous non-RTE textarea value and renders it without safe HTML encoding in the legacy submission editor. An attacker can break out of the textarea with stored script. When an Administrator opens the attacker-known direct submission URL, the script runs in the WordPress admin origin.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added Affected New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/94xxx/CVE-2026-94504.json">CVE-2026-94504</a>
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L205
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Templates/admin-metabox-sub-fields.html.php#L23
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35
    Added Reference https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3705719%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.4&old=3685242%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.3
    Added Reference https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c599a562-5218-4b37-bcf7-0e82008a4e68?source=cve
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