CVE-2024-13518: Simple:Press <= 6.10.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Unauthorized Post Editing
Description
The Simple:Press Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.10.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sp_save_edited_post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a forum post via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-13518
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Affected Products
Vendor: simplepress
Product: Simple:Press Forum
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 0.82% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-03-30 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13518https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4484fa86-5878-426d-92b9-8eb0751075e5?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simplepress/trunk/forum/database/sp-db-management.php#L173