CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-3866

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2024-09-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-09-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79

Description

The Ninja Forms Contact Form plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Self-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Referer' header in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires "maintenance mode" for a targeted form to be enabled. However, there is no setting available to the attacker or even an administrator-level user to enable this mode. The mode is only enabled during a required update, which is a very short window of time. Additionally, because of the self-based nature of this vulnerability, attackers would have to rely on additional techniques to execute a supplied payload in the context of targeted user.

Affected configurations

• ninjaforms ninja forms (< 3.8.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References