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WordPress Plugin: popup-box: CVE-2024-3477: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 11, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Popup Box – new WordPress popup plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the popup-box page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete pop-ups via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Solution

popup-box-plugin-cve-2024-3477
Title
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