CVE-2025-10498 (GCVE-0-2025-10498)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-27 02:25 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:15
VLAI
Title
Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You <= 3.12.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited File Deletion
Summary
The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when exporting CSV files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete those files granted they can trick an 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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-29 13:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2249 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.12.0 (semver)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Nguyen Ngoc Quang Bach
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