Vulnerability · Published Nov 8, 2021 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2021-24806wpDiscuz < 7.3.4 - Arbitrary Comment Addition/Edition/Deletion via CSRF

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Comments – wpDiscuz from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The wpDiscuz WordPress plugin before 7.3.4 does check for CSRF when adding, editing and deleting comments, which could allow attacker to make logged in users such as admin edit and delete arbitrary comment, or the user who made the comment to edit it via a CSRF attack. Attackers could also make logged in users post arbitrary comment.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Comments – wpDiscuz 7.3.4 – before 7.3.4

Weakness: CWE-352

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