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CVE-2024-2113: Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress <= 3.8.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Publicly Accessible Form Submission Export

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the nf_download_all_subs AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger an export of a form's submission to a publicly accessible location via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You: before 3.8.1 — fixed in 3.8.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You 3.8.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3059780/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Admin/CPT/DownloadAllSubmissions.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ebfc9f5-abb7-47bc-bd38-f60df1cccb5d?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3059780/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Admin/CPT/DownloadAllSubmissions.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ebfc9f5-abb7-47bc-bd38-f60df1cccb5d?source=cve

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