WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Popup Box < 6.1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Popup Status Change

Description

The Popup Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.1. This is due to a flawed nonce implementation in the 'publish_unpublish_popupbox' function that verifies a self-created nonce rather than one submitted in the request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the publish status of popups via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.1.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
w41bu1
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-01-30 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-01-31 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-01-31 (about 3 months ago)

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