CVE-2026-94504
📛 CVE Title
Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.15.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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.
Overview
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Assigner (CNA)
- Wordfence
- CVSS severity
- HIGH
- CVSS score
- 7.2 / 10
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N- Effective score
- 7.2 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
- CWE(s)
-
CWE-79 - Reserved
- 2026-09-21
- Published
- 2026-09-22 06:39 UTC
- Last updated
- 2026-09-22 14:13 UTC
- Source
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/94xxx/CVE-2026-94504.json
- Linked Threat
- CVE-2026-94504 — Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.15.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
NVD triage scoring NVD CVE 2.0
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- NVD published
- 2026-09-22 07:16:31 UTC
- NVD last modified
- 2026-09-22 19:04:55 UTC
- NVD CVSS v3.1
- 7.2 / 10 HIGH source: security@wordfence.com
- NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N- Exploitability subscore
- 3.9 / 10
- Impact subscore
- 2.7 / 10
- EPSS score
- 0.0029 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
- EPSS percentile
- 22.05% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-09-22
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European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD
ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.
- EUVD ID
-
EUVD-2026-84281 - Assigner
- Wordfence
- Published
- Sep 22, 2026, 6:39:41 AM
- Updated
- Sep 22, 2026, 2:13:49 PM
- EUVD base score (CVSS 3.1)
-
7.2 / 10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EUVD-reported EPSS
- 0.2900
- Vendors
- kstover
- Products
-
Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder (0 ≤3.15.3)
- Aliases
-
GHSA-9248-28p4-jpfp
ENISA 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.
EUVD references (6)
- 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
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| kstover | Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder |
0 (affected)
|
— |
Vendor references (6)
References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.
- 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
Web references (0)
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No web references attached yet.
NVD-tagged references (6)
Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L205 security@wordfence.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35 security@wordfence.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Templates/admin-metabox-sub-fields.html.php#L23 security@wordfence.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Fields/Textarea.php#L35 security@wordfence.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3705719%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.4&old=3685242%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.3 security@wordfence.com
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c599a562-5218-4b37-bcf7-0e82008a4e68?source=cve security@wordfence.com
Indicators (1)
IOCs linked to the auto-promoted Threat row.
| Type | Value | VirusTotal | Attached |
|---|---|---|---|
| cve |
CVE-2026-94504
|
no local data | 2026-09-21 20:36 UTC |
Remediations (1)
Remediations are stored against the linked Threat row; the list below is deduplicated across both pages.
-
Wordfence remediation: Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form BuilderWordfence
Update to version 3.15.4, or a newer patched version
2026-09-21 20:36 UTC
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Raw JSON
The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-94504.json.
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