Exploitation Summary
CVE-2023-1835 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
Description
The Ninja Forms Contact Form WordPress plugin before 3.6.22 does not properly escape user input before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
Nuclei Templates (1)
Ninja Forms < 3.6.22 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby r3Y3r53
Shodan:
http.html:/wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/
FOFA:
body=/wp-content/plugins/ninja-forms/
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Exploit exploit
vdb-entry
technical-description
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5fc223c-5ec0-44b2-b2f6-b35f9942d341
Scores
CVSS v3
6.1
EPSS
0.0092
EPSS Percentile
55.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
Status
published
Products (1)
ninjaforms/ninja_forms
< 3.6.22
Published
May 15, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026