CVE-2026-19769
The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Repeater Child 'type' Confusion via Unmatched Array Key in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.1 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.
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Exploitation requires the Ninja Forms File Uploads add-on to be active, as the attack routes the unwhitelisted child entry through the File Uploads handler to write an attacker-supplied HTML file containing arbitrary JavaScript into any web-server-writable directory, including the site root, where it is served from the site's own origin.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.2
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.25%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 15
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access85 % - Impacto principal
T1059.007JavaScriptexecution90 %
XSS almacenado via confusión de tipos de array sin sanitización en plugin WordPress accesible sin autenticación (AV:N, PR:N, UI:N). La inyección de JavaScript arbitrario se ejecuta en navegadores de usuarios (CWE-79, T1059.007).
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-79
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.14.11/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L303
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.14.11/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.14.11/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L609
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.14.11/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php#L61
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3674413/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/AJAX/Controllers/Submission.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fninja-forms/tags/3.15.1&new_path=%2Fninja-forms/tags/3.15.2
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3674413%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.2&old=3663678%40ninja-forms%2Ftags%2F3.15.1
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2330e381-7db3-4b79-8827-818d2ea954b5?source=cve
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