WP Abstracts <= 2.7.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Account Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-12386
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published February 11, 2025
Last Updated February 12, 2025
Researcher SOPROBRO
Description

The WP Abstracts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This is due to missing nonce validation on multiple functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary accounts 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 wp-abstracts-manuscripts-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.3
Patched Version
  • 2.7.4
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