{"id":244981,"date":"2026-10-06T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ninja-forms-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-hack-wordpress-sites"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:04:38","slug":"ninja-forms-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-hack-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ninja-forms-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-hack-wordpress-sites","title":{"rendered":"Ninja Forms plugin flaw exploited to hack WordPress sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ninja-forms-plugin-flaw-exploited-to-hack-wordpress-sites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are exploiting stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in two unrelated WordPress plugins, Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce, to install backdoors and create rogue admin accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Both vulnerabilities received a high severity score and require an authenticated session to exploit. They are tracked as CVE-2026\u201393836, affecting WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce versions 8.6.6 and older, and CVE-2026\u201394504, affecting Ninja Forms versions 3.15.3 and older.<\/p>\n<p>The Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress is installed on more than 500,000 sites and allows creating custom forms without writing code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are exploiting stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in two unrelated WordPress plugins, Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce, to install backdoors and create rogue admin accounts. Both vulnerabilities received a high severity score and require an authenticated session to exploit. They are tracked as CVE-2026\u201393836, affecting WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce versions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981","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=244981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}