CVE-2022-2903 (GCVE-0-2022-2903)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-26 12:35 – Updated: 2025-05-21 19:18
VLAI?
Summary
The Ninja Forms Contact Form WordPress plugin before 3.6.13 unserialises the content of an imported file, which could lead to PHP object injections issues when an admin import (intentionally or not) a malicious file and a suitable gadget chain is present on the blog.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress Affected: 3.6.13 , < 3.6.13 (custom)
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Credits
Alessio Santoru
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