Vulnerability · Published Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-94504Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.15.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
High 7.2
In plain English
A high-severity cross-site scripting in Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder from kstover. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| kstover | Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder | 0 – through 3.15.3 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c599a562-5218-4b37-bcf7-0e82008a4e68?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Templates/admin-metabox-sub-fields.html.php#L23
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3705719%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.4&old=3685242%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.3