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CVE-2021-24635

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
September 20, 2021
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-284, CWE-862
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

Affected WordPress components

  • Visual Link Preview Plugin · visual-link-preview
    Confirmed match Active
    From 2.2.3 (including) to 2.2.3 (excluding)
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Visual Link Preview — From 2.2.3 (including) to 2.2.3 (excluding)
  • bootstrapped visual_link_preview — Before 2.2.3

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/854b23d9-e3f8-4835-8d29-140c580f11c9 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record