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CVE-2024-1785: Contests by Rewards Fuel <= 2.0.62 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Contests by Rewards Fuel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.62. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_handler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings and inject malicious JavaScript via a forged request granted they can trick a site's user with the edit_posts capability into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• rewardsfuel Contests by Rewards Fuel: through 2.0.62

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3039978%40contests-from-rewards-fuel&new=3039978%40contests-from-rewards-fuel&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/689f3667-2dda-40a8-8627-d38c6c6816fc?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3039978%40contests-from-rewards-fuel&new=3039978%40contests-from-rewards-fuel&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/689f3667-2dda-40a8-8627-d38c6c6816fc?source=cve

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