CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-8911
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
The WP AutoBuzz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This vulnerability bypasses WordPress's DISALLOW_UNFILTERED_HTML protection because the unsanitized value is written directly via update_option at the plugin level, entirely outside of WordPress post content handling.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-autobuzz/tags/1.1.1/wp-autobuzz.php#L77 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-autobuzz/tags/1.1.1/wp-autobuzz.php#L81 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-autobuzz/tags/1.1.1/wp-autobuzz.php#L93 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/481dc27b-0d64-49cc-8d67-50fa53636398?source=cve www.wordfence.com