CVE-2021-38342 (GCVE-0-2021-38342)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-30 18:05
Modified
2024-09-17 00:56
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/
nvd@nist.govhttps://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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