Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools <= 2.1.4 - Arbitrary Comment Deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24725
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 23, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Martin Vierula
Description

The Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools WordPress plugin before 2.1.6 does not have CSRF check in its 'Delete comments easily', which could allow attackers to make logged in admin delete arbitrary comments

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug comment-link-remove (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1.4
Patched Version
  • 2.1.6
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