Ninja Forms <= 3.5.7 Unprotected REST-API to Email Injection
CVE-2021-34648

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Ninja Forms
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 September 2021

Summary

The Ninja Forms WordPress plugin is vulnerable to arbitrary email sending via the trigger_email_action function found in the ~/includes/Routes/Submissions.php file, in versions up to and including 3.5.7. This allows authenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails from the affected server via the /ninja-forms-submissions/email-action REST API which can be used to socially engineer victims.

Affected Version(s)

Ninja Forms 3.5.7

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/recently-patched-v...
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tr...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence
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