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CVE-2024-2964: Pocket News Generator <= 0.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

• 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: 2024-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Pocket News Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the option_page() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• marubon Pocket News Generator: through 0.2.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pocket-news-generator/trunk/pocket-news-generator.php#L77
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fe7f4e4-3774-408b-8a2a-0db67bc34fcf?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pocket-news-generator/trunk/pocket-news-generator.php#L77
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fe7f4e4-3774-408b-8a2a-0db67bc34fcf?source=cve

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