CVE-2024-12238 Code injection in Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You
Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary shortcodes in Ninja Forms due to improper validation, potentially leading to code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12238?
CVE-2024-12238 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 29 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.22. 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.
Weakness: CWE-94
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12238?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ninjaforms Ninja Forms.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12238?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12238 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2024-12238 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12238 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms
- CVE-2025-9083 Ninja-forms < 3.11.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Objection
- CVE-2016-1209 Deserialization in n/a
- CVE-2018-20981 Information disclosure in n/a
- CVE-2024-25572 Cross-site request forgery in Ninja Forms
- CVE-2021-24163 Ninja Forms < 3.4.34 - Authenticated SendWP Plugin Installation and Client Secret Key Disclosure
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q7vw-44m5-5wxh.