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CVE-2024-12634: Related Posts, Inline Related Posts, Contextual Related Posts, Related Content By PickPlugins <= 2.0.59 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2025-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Related Posts, Inline Related Posts, Contextual Related Posts, Related Content By PickPlugins plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including 2.0.59. This is due to missing nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• pickplugins Related Posts, Inline Related Posts, Contextual Related Posts, Related Content By PickPlugins: 2.0.59

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/related-post/tags/2.0.58b/includes/menu/settings.php#L129
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3251482/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-post/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29d22612-8e0d-4275-b370-9729352c951e?source=cve

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