# CVE-2025-11924: Missing authorization in Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You

> Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary form definitions and submission records via leaked bearer tokens due to missing authorization checks.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-377j-r7wx-8v2h

## What is CVE-2025-11924?

CVE-2025-11924 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 17 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in versions up to, and including, 3.13.2. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized before the `ninja-forms-views` REST endpoints return form metadata and submission content. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary form definitions and submission records via a leaked bearer token granted they can load any page containing the Submissions Table block. NOTE: The developer released a patch for this issue in 3.13.1, but inadvertently introduced a REST API endpoint in which a valid bearer token could be minted for arbitrary form IDs, making this patch ineffective.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11924?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ninjaforms Ninja Forms.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-11924?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11924 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-11924 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11924 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-2025-11924 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-11924 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ninjaforms Ninja Forms, published on 17 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11924 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-2025-11924/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11924/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11924
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11924
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11924

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11924/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.