CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-15160
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The Ninja Forms - Excel Export plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.6 via the 'spreadsheet_export_tmp_name' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to write .xls/.xlsx files to arbitrary locations on the server, which can be used to stage further attacks.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms-excel-export/trunk/includes/Admin/ExtractPostData.php#L125 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms-excel-export/trunk/includes/Handlers/ExportFile.php#L485 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms-excel-export/trunk/ninja-forms-excel-export.php#L95 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24fb24cc-c29f-4d2d-87ba-5d211386e7dd?source=cve www.wordfence.com