WordPress plugin
Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress <= 3.4.27.1 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2020-36173Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.4.27.1Update to 3.4.28 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder ninja-forms
- Affected≤ 3.4.27.1
- Patched in3.4.28
Update to 3.4.28 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.4.27.1. Version 3.4.28 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 3.4.28, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
The Ninja Forms plugin before 3.4.28 for WordPress lacks escaping for submissions-table fields.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'extra' Parameter via Metadata Key Normalization ≤3.15.5Update to 3.15.6 | CVE-2026-109997 | |
| Medium5.8 | Unauthenticated CSV Injection ≤3.15.3Update to 3.15.4 | CVE-2026-67187 |
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≤3.15.5Update to 3.15.6
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Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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