CVE-2018-19287 — XSS in the Ninja Forms plugin before 3

XSS in the Ninja Forms plugin before 3.3.18 for WordPress allows Remote Attackers to execute JavaScript via the includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php (aka submissions page) begin_date, end_date, or form_id parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

XSS in the Ninja Forms plugin before 3.3.18 for WordPress allows Remote Attackers to execute JavaScript via the includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php (aka submissions page) begin_date, end_date, or form_id parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-15T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:30:04.190Z

09References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1974335/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/…
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/#developers
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45880/