# CVE-2025-15510: Missing authorization in NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress

> Unauthenticated attackers can export form configurations containing sensitive data like API keys and emails due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w79v-3gcx-v6c9

## What is CVE-2025-15510?

CVE-2025-15510 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress, published on 31 Jan 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the NF5_Export_Forms class constructor in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to export form configurations, that may include sensitive data, such as  email addresses, PayPal API credentials, and third-party integration keys by enumerating the nex_forms_Id parameter.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15510?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-15510?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-15510 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-15510 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15510 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-15510 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-15510 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress, published on 31 Jan 2026. 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-2025-15510 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress. 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-2025-15510/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15510/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15510
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15510
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-15510

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-15510/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.