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WordPress Plugin: wp-nested-pages: CVE-2021-38342: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 25, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Nested Pages WordPress plugin less than or equal to 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their status, reassigning their ownership, and editing other metadata.

Solution

wp-nested-pages-plugin-cve-2021-38342
Title
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