cve-2021-39333
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-01 21:01
Modified
2025-03-31 17:46
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Hashthemes Demo Importer Plugin <= 1.1.1 for WordPress contained several AJAX functions which relied on a nonce which was visible to all logged-in users for access control, allowing them to execute a function that truncated nearly all database tables and removed the contents of wp-content/uploads.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/site-deletion-vulnerability-in-hashthemes-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/site-deletion-vulnerability-in-hashthemes-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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