CVE-2024-13518 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-13518

Simple:Press <= 6.10.12 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Unauthorized Post Editing

4.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Simple:Press Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.10.12. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sp_save_edited_post' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a forum post via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Robert Subotic

References

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Affected Vendor

simplepress

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Affected Software

Simple:Press Forum

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 1st, 2025

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

T1204.001 Malicious Link

T1098 Account Manipulation

T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation