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CVE-2023-5821
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
The Thumbnail carousel slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the deleteselected function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete sliders in bulk via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1263536/wp-responsive-slider-with-lightbox/trunk/wp-responsive-slider-with-lightbox.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bde75c5a-b0b7-4f26-91e9-dd4816e276c9?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1263536/wp-responsive-slider-with-lightbox/trunk/wp-responsive-slider-with-lightbox.php
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bde75c5a-b0b7-4f26-91e9-dd4816e276c9?source=cve
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