WordPress Most And Least Read Posts Widget plugin <= 2.5.18 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

published 2024-10-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-43491

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in whiletrue Most And Least Read Posts Widget most-and-least-read-posts-widget allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Most And Least Read Posts Widget: from n/a through <= 2.5.18.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

whiletrue Most And Least Read Posts Widget 2.5.19

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-20)

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

whiletrue Most And Least Read Posts Widget

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/most-and-least-read-posts-widget/vulnerability/wordpress-most-and-least-read-posts-
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-49628
NVD CVE-2024-49628

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary