Trendy News <= 1.0.15 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-37473
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 1, 2024
Last Updated July 9, 2024
Researcher Dhabaleshwar Das
Description

The Trendy News theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.15. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the trendy_news_set_ajax_transient() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update transients 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 Theme
Software Slug trendy-news (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.14
Patched Version
  • 1.0.15
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