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CVE-2021-38342: Nested Pages <= 3.1.15 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion and Modification

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 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: none known
• Published: 2021-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their status, reassigning their ownership, and editing other metadata.

Affected products

• Nested Pages: through 3.1.15

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/

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