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CVE-2024-1642: MainWP Dashboard <= 4.6.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via posting_bulk

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2024-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'posting_bulk' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies: before 5.0 — fixed in 5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies 5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp/tags/4.6.0.1/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3042125/mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php?old=3017011&old_path=mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c2d9569-a551-46f5-8581-464b9f35b71c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp/tags/4.6.0.1/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3042125/mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php?old=3017011&old_path=mainwp/trunk/pages/page-mainwp-post-page-handler.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2c2d9569-a551-46f5-8581-464b9f35b71c?source=cve

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