CVE-2021-4396 (GCVE-0-2021-4396)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-01 05:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Rucy <= 0.4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
Summary
The Rucy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 0.4.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_rc_post_meta() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-28 14:09 UTC
CWE
- CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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