Comments - wpDiscuz <= 7.3.3 - Arbitrary Comment Addition/Edition/Deletion by Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24806
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 11, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpdiscuz (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.3.4
Patched Version
  • 7.3.4
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