CVE-2021-24978: OSMapper <= 2.1.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2022-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The OSMapper WordPress plugin through 2.1.5 contains an AJAX action to delete a plugin related post type named 'map' and is registered with the wp_ajax_nopriv prefix, making it available to unauthenticated users. There is no authorisation, CSRF and checks in place to ensure that the post to delete is a map one. As a result, unauthenticated user can delete arbitrary posts from the blog

Affected products

OSMapper: through 2.1.5

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f0f2af29-e21e-4d16-9424-1a49bff7fb86
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f0f2af29-e21e-4d16-9424-1a49bff7fb86

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