CVE-2024-1642

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.

CVSS v3 4.3 MEDIUM

4.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp/tags/4.6.0.1/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php	Product
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	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c2d9569-a551-46f5-8581-464b9f35b71c?source=cve	Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp/tags/4.6.0.1/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php	Product
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	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c2d9569-a551-46f5-8581-464b9f35b71c?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mainwp:mainwp_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-03-13 16:15

Updated : 2025-04-03 13:11

NVD link : CVE-2024-1642

Mitre link : CVE-2024-1642

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-1642

JSON object : View

Products Affected

mainwp

mainwp_dashboard

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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