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CVE-2021-24572 (GCVE-0-2021-24572)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-01 08:46 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI
Title
Paypal Donation < 1.3.1 - CSRF to Arbitrary Post Deletion
Summary
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 provides a function to create donation buttons which are internally stored as posts. The deletion of a button is not CSRF protected and there is no control to check if the deleted post was a button post. As a result, an attacker could make logged in admins delete arbitrary posts
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Accept Donations with PayPal Affected: 1.3.1 , < 1.3.1 (custom)
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Credits
dc11
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