CVE-2025-10499 (GCVE-0-2025-10499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-27 02:25 – Updated: 2025-09-29 13:55
VLAI?
Title
Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.12.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You Affected: * , ≤ 3.12.0 (semver)
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Credits
Nguyen Ngoc Quang Bach
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