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WordPress Plugin: newsplugin: CVE-2021-34631: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 21, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The NewsPlugin WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the handle_save_style function found in the ~/news-plugin.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.0.18.

Solution

newsplugin-plugin-cve-2021-34631
Title
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