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CVE-2026-109997

HIGH 7.2

Ninja Forms <= 3.15.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'extra' Parameter via Metadata Key Normalization

CVSS Score
7.2
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'formData.extra' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The nf_ajax_submit endpoint issues a valid nonce to any requester on failure, effectively neutralizing the nonce check and making exploitation trivially achievable in a single unauthenticated request.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor kstover
Product ninja forms – contact form builder with calculators, quizzes, signatures & ai form builder
Published Oct 31, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

kstover / Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder
0 ≤ 3.15.5

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/54da4deb-e50c-478d-ab99-222c5573a036?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/Templates/admin-metaboxes-calcs.html.php#L4 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L52 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L428 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/Actions/Save.php#L311 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L731 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.5/includes/Admin/Metaboxes/Calculations.php#L23 wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3749135/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Templates/admin-metaboxes-calcs.html.php

Credits

daroo