Ninja Forms Contact Form Plugin up to 3.6.12 on WordPress Imported File deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Ninja Forms Contact Form Plugin up to 3.6.12 on WordPress and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Imported File Handler. The manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-2903. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ninja Forms Contact Form Plugin up to 3.6.12 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Imported File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Ninja Forms Contact Form WordPress plugin before 3.6.13 unserialises the content of an imported file, which could lead to PHP object injections issues when an admin import (intentionally or not) a malicious file and a suitable gadget chain is present on the blog.

The weakness was published 09/26/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-2903 since 08/19/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 3.6.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Remote: Yes

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Contact Form Plugin 3.6.13

Timelineinfo

08/19/2022 🔍
09/26/2022 +38 days 🔍
09/26/2022 +0 days 🔍
05/22/2025 +968 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-2903 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-2903
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-209555

Entryinfo

Created: 09/26/2022 16:32
Updated: 05/22/2025 00:36
Changes: 09/26/2022 16:32 (42), 10/24/2022 06:47 (11), 05/22/2025 00:36 (15)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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