CVE-2025-3468 Cross-site scripting in NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress

What is CVE-2025-3468?

CVE-2025-3468 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress, published on 8 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The NEX-Forms – Ultimate Form Builder – Contact forms and much more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the clean_html and form_fields parameters in all versions up to, and including, 8.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Custom-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3468?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Basixonline Nex-Forms.

How do I fix CVE-2025-3468?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3468 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2025-3468 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-3468 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in webaways NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress

• CVE-2015-9452 SQL injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-3142 NEX-Forms < 7.9.7 - Authenticated SQLi High 8.8
• CVE-2024-53808 WordPress NEX-Forms plugin <= 8.7.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability High 8.5
• CVE-2023-50838 WordPress NEX-Forms – Ultimate Form Builder Plugin <= 8.5.5 is vulnerable to SQL Injection High 7.6
• CVE-2021-34675 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pq56-qw5r-672m.