CVE-2025-10498
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Ninja Forms WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 3.12.0) contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-10498. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 26, 2025, and affects the plugin's CSV file export functionality due to missing or incorrect nonce validation (NVD, Rapid7).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper nonce validation when exporting CSV files in the Ninja Forms plugin. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, indicating that it requires user interaction but can be exploited remotely without authentication (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to delete CSV files by tricking administrators into performing specific actions, such as clicking on malicious links. This could result in the loss of form submission data stored in CSV format (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade their Ninja Forms plugin to a version newer than 3.12.0 to address this vulnerability. The issue has been fixed in subsequent releases (NVD).

Additional resources


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