The Ninja Forms WordPress plugin 3.15.3 does not prevent user-submitted form field values from being deserialised when an administrator later exports form submissions to CSV, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform PHP Object Injection; if a suitable POP chain is present via another installed plugin or theme, this can lead to actions such as arbitrary file operations or remote code execution.
Weakness
The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.
Potential Mitigations
- Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
- An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.