{"id":234763,"date":"2026-04-07T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/hackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-ninja-forms-wordpress-plugin"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:21:06","slug":"hackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-ninja-forms-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/hackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-ninja-forms-wordpress-plugin","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploit critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-exploit-critical-flaw-in-ninja-forms-wordpress-plugin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>Identified as CVE-2026\u20130740, the issue is currently exploited in attacks. According to WordPress security company Defiant, its Wordfence firewall blocked more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/threat-intel\/vulnerabilities\/wordpress-plugins\/ninja-forms-uploads\/ninja-forms-file-upload-3326-unauthenticated-arbitrary-file-upload\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3,600 attacks<\/a> over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>With over <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ninja-forms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">600,000 downloads<\/a>, Ninja Forms is a popular WordPress form builder that lets users create forms without coding using a drag-and-drop interface. Its File Upload extension, included in the same suite, serves <a href=\"https:\/\/ninjaforms.com\/extensions\/file-uploads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">90,000 customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution. Identified as CVE-2026\u20130740, the issue is currently exploited in attacks. According to WordPress security company Defiant, its Wordfence firewall blocked more than 3,600 attacks over the past 24 hours. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}