Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion and Modification
CVE-2021-38342

8.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Nested Pages
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 August 2021

What is CVE-2021-38342?

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the npBulkActions 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.

Affected Version(s)

Nested Pages 3.1.15

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Ramuel Gall, Wordfence
.