CVE-2026-90438
Description
The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Paragraph Text (RTE) Field Submission in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is only exploitable when the targeted Paragraph Text field has the Rich Text Editor (RTE) option enabled.
Affected WordPress components
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Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You Plugin · ninja-formsUp to and including 3.15.4View on WordPress.org
A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.
Affected products and versions
- kstover Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder — Up to and including 3.15.4
References
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.2/build/submissions.js#L1
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.2/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L61
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.2/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L308
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.2/includes/Helper.php#L261
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/build/submissions.js#L1
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L61
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Database/Models/Submission.php#L308
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.3/includes/Helper.php#L261
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3717122/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3717122%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.5&old=3705719%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.4
- www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a159485d-ce5b-46e7-8e63-a72012ccc180?source=cve
- nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record