Post Views Counter <= 1.4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_bulk_post_views()

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-31264
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 5, 2024
Last Updated April 11, 2024
Researcher Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)
Description

The Post Views Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_bulk_post_views() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save bulk post views via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug post-views-counter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.4
Patched Version
  • 1.4.5
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