High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-9990
CVE-2024-9990
Description
The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.15. This is due to missing nonce validation in the 'crypto_connect_ajax_process::check' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
4- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cea39157-94aa-4982-983e-9c3e4b1af86dnvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crypto/tags/2.10/includes/class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crypto/tags/2.10/includes/class-crypto_connect_ajax_register.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3180126/cryptonvd
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