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CVE-2024-13518: Simple:Press <= 6.10.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Unauthorized Post Editing

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Simple:Press Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.10.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sp_save_edited_post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a forum post via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• simplepress Simple:Press Forum: through 6.10.11

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simplepress/trunk/forum/database/sp-db-management.php#L173
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3251363
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4484fa86-5878-426d-92b9-8eb0751075e5?source=cve

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