Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion and Modification

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-38342
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published August 25, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
Description

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their status, reassigning their ownership, and editing other metadata.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-nested-pages (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.15
Patched Version
  • 3.1.16
This record contains material that is subject to copyright

Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc.
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. License Detail.