CVE-2024-13518

Simple:Press <= 6.10.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Unauthorized Post Editing

CVSS 4.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-352

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 4.3EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

01 Mar 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

The Simple:Press Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.10.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sp_save_edited_post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a forum post via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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

Affected products

simplepress · Simple:Press Forum

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simplepress/trunk/forum/database/sp-db-management.php#L173 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3251363 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4484fa86-5878-426d-92b9-8eb0751075e5?source=cve