# CVE-2024-2113: Cross-site request forgery in Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You

> Unauthenticated attackers can trick administrators into exporting form submissions to a public location via CSRF, leading to data disclosure.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x4hm-m25h-2c6q

## What is CVE-2024-2113?

CVE-2024-2113 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 29 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the nf_download_all_subs AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger an export of a form's submission to a publicly accessible location via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2113?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ninjaforms Ninja Forms.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-2113?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2113 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-2113 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2113 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms

- [CVE-2025-9083](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9083/): Ninja-forms < 3.11.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Objection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-1209](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1209/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-20981](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-20981/): Information disclosure in n/a (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2024-25572](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-25572/): Cross-site request forgery in Ninja Forms (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-24163](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24163/): Ninja Forms < 3.4.34 - Authenticated SendWP Plugin Installation and Client Secret Key Disclosure (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-2113 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-2113 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 29 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2113 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ninjaforms Ninja Forms. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2113/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2113/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-2113
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2113
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2113

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2113/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.