The The Ninja Forms – Contact Form Builder with Calculators, Quizzes, Signatures & AI Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.15.5 This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes. Exploitation requires that an administrator has configured at least one Ninja Forms field with its Default Value set to the {wp:user_display_name} merge tag on a publicly accessible page; a Subscriber need only set their display_name to a shortcode string via their profile and then visit that page.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.4 · kstoverNVD modified 2026-10-31 05:33
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05dccb32-e638-4929-a788-3998bc3acd75?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.4/includes/MergeTags/WP.php#L189
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.4/includes/Display/Render.php#L278
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.4/includes/Display/Render.php#L268
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.4/includes/Config/MergeTagsWP.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.15.4/includes/Abstracts/MergeTags.php#L94
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3749135/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Display/Render.php