Vulnerability · Published Mar 13, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-1642MainWP Dashboard <= 4.6.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via posting_bulk
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies from mainwp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'posting_bulk' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| mainwp | MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies | 0 – through 4.6.0.1 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c2d9569-a551-46f5-8581-464b9f35b71c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp/tags/4.6.0.1/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3042125/mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php?old=3017011&old_path=mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php