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CVE-2024-12545: Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests <= 2.7.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via reset_installation Function

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the reset_installation() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin’s installation via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more: before 2.8.0 — fixed in 2.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more 2.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook/tags/2.7.0/includes/swin-api.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3212730/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7cbc157b-4f1b-4212-9e5c-dd10dd443df7?source=cve

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