CVE-2021-38342

Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion and Modification

highCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

8.1

CVSS Score

8.1

CVSS Score

high

Severity

3.1.16

Patched in

881d

Time to patch

Description

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their status, reassigning their ownership, and editing other metadata.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=3.1.15

PublishedAugust 25, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginwp-nested-pages

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ecbbe9f0-bf6c-4153-9843-8ae7713adef9?source=api-prod

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