CVE-2018-20981 describes a critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms WordPress plugin prior to version 3.3.9, allowing insufficient restrictions on submission-data retrieval during "Export Personal Data" requests. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, enabling an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality and integrity impacts without user interaction. Despite its severity, there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), nor is it listed in the KEV catalog, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ninjaforms:ninja_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.