CVE-2026-94504: Ninja Forms stored XSS in submission editor textarea

CVE-2026-94504 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.2 · Published 2026-09-22

Ninja Forms, a popular WordPress plugin for creating web forms, stores user-submitted textarea content without properly encoding it. When an administrator views submissions containing malicious code, the attacker's script runs with the administrator's privileges, potentially allowing account takeover or data theft.

Technologies: Ninja Forms. Vendors: Ninja Forms.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-94504 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-94504 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-94504?
High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 22 September 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
Ninja Forms 3.15.3.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-94504?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2026-94504 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-94504?
Check whether you run Ninja Forms at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Ninja Forms 3.15.3 where non-RTE textarea fields fail to HTML-encode submitted values before rendering them in the legacy submission editor. An unauthenticated attacker can inject JavaScript that breaks out of the textarea element; when an authenticated WordPress administrator opens the attacker-controlled submission URL, the payload executes in the WordPress admin context.

Affected products

  • Ninja Forms Ninja Forms 3.15.3

Timeline

  • 2026-09-22: disclosed

References

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