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CVE-2020-36753: Hueman <= 3.6.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Hueman theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.6.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_meta_box() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save metabox data via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• presscustomizr Hueman: through 3.6.3

References

• https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-2/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-3/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-4/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-5/
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hueman/3.6.4/option-tree/includes/class-ot-meta-box.php#L207
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d54b4dc9-8590-433c-873a-efb49e2e79cd?source=cve
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/

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