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Ninja Forms <= 3.5.7 — Unprotected REST-API to Email Injection

CVE-2021-34648Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.5.7Update to 3.5.8 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder ninja-forms

  1. Affected≤ 3.5.7
  2. Patched in3.5.8

Update to 3.5.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.5.7. Version 3.5.8 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.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.5.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. 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, credited to Chloe Chamberland.

The Ninja Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to arbitrary email sending via the trigger_email_action function found in the ~/includes/Routes/Submissions.php file, in versions up to and including 3.5.7. This allows authenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails from the affected server via the /ninja-forms-submissions/email-action REST API which can be used to socially engineer victims.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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