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CVE-2025-10499: Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.12.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update

• 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: 2025-09-27 · updated 2026-10-09
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the maybe_opt_in() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to opt an affected site into usage statistics collection 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 3.12.1 — fixed in 3.12.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You 3.12.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/lib/NF_Tracking.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3365881/ninja-forms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3362375&old_path=%2Fninja-forms%2Ftrunk#file6
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2f118fc-d99a-4713-865e-2da7a9e20db5?source=cve

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