CVE-2025-10499 Cross-site request forgery in Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You
Unauthenticated attackers can trick administrators into enabling usage statistics collection via CSRF, affecting Ninja Forms plugin users.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-10499?
CVE-2025-10499 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 27 Sep 2025. 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 – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the maybe_opt_in() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to opt an affected site into usage statistics collection via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-10499?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ninjaforms Ninja Forms.
How do I fix CVE-2025-10499?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-10499 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-10499 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-10499 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-mgqm-23px-jgg8.