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CVE-2024-9588: Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields <= 1.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Taxonomy Meta Add/Delete

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-10-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wpaft_option_page' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and delete taxonomy meta, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• amu02aftab Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields: through 1.0.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-custom-taxonomy-meta/trunk/includes/options.php?rev=1196908#L103
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2dc9c744-6ffb-4d7a-94ce-ba576d7b6d47?source=cve

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