cve-2021-34648
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-22 17:53
Modified
2025-03-31 18:20
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Routes/Submissions.php?rev=2543837#L155Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/recently-patched-vulnerabilities-in-ninja-forms-plugin-affects-over-1-million-site-owners/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Routes/Submissions.php?rev=2543837#L155Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/recently-patched-vulnerabilities-in-ninja-forms-plugin-affects-over-1-million-site-owners/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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