Description
The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Paragraph Text (RTE) Field Submission in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.4 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. This is only exploitable when the targeted Paragraph Text field has the Rich Text Editor (RTE) option enabled.
Published: 2026-10-02
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Stored XSS via paragraph text (RTE) field
Action: Patch Immediately
AI Analysis

Impact

This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript when a paragraph field with Rich Text Editor enabled is submitted to the Ninja Forms plugin. The input is not sanitized or escaped before being stored, so the malicious code is persisted and executed in any user’s browser when the page is viewed. As a result, attackers can steal session data, deface content, or perform further attacks on behalf of the victim.

Affected Systems

All installations of the Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder plugin running version 3.15.4 or earlier are affected. The attack does not require user authentication and exploits the rich text paragraph field functionality.

Risk and Exploitability

The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a high severity. The EPSS score is unavailable, and the issue is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog. An attacker can leverage the public form interface to submit malicious scripts; no special access or privileges are necessary beyond being able to submit a form. If a target site displays stored submissions to visitors, the exploit will trigger in any user's browser who views the affected page.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 2, 2026 at 06:22 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Upgrade Ninja Forms to version 3.15.5 or later to eliminate the stored XSS flaw.
  • If upgrading immediately is not possible, disable Rich Text Editor for all paragraph fields that do not require rich formatting.
  • Implement server‑side validation that sanitizes or removes embedded scripts and ensure that all output is properly escaped before rendering to the browser.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 2, 2026 at 06:22 UTC.

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History

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Paragraph Text (RTE) Field Submission in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.4 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. This is only exploitable when the targeted Paragraph Text field has the Rich Text Editor (RTE) option enabled.
Title Ninja Forms <= 3.15.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Paragraph Text (RTE) Field Submission
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Subscriptions

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-02T05:30:17.547Z

Reserved: 2026-09-11T20:06:06.961Z

Link: CVE-2026-90438

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-02T06:16:42.050

Modified: 2026-10-02T13:18:55.613

Link: CVE-2026-90438

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-02T06:30:18Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-79

    Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')