Cross-site scripting in Ninja Forms - The Easy and Powerful Forms Builder - CVE-2018-19287
Published: August 2, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19643
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19287
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: Ninja Shop LLC
Affected software:
Ninja Forms - The Easy and Powerful Forms Builder
Ninja Forms - The Easy and Powerful Forms Builder
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via the includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php (aka submissions page) begin_date, end_date, or form_id parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19287
Update to version 3.3.18.