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YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin < 4.2.5 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

78759abf-4584-4beb-9ae7-39a5c3fe4b75Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <4.2.5Update to 4.2.5 or newer

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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin yet-another-related-posts-plugin

  1. Affected< 4.2.5
  2. Patched in4.2.5

Update to 4.2.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 4.2.5. Version 4.2.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.2.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Evex.

The YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable a Cross-Site Request Forgery which can lead to Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 via the yarpp_options.php file. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server if they can successfully trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

All 8
More vulnerabilities in YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.30.10Update to 5.30.11
CVE-2024-43919
Medium4.4Authenticated(Administrator+) Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.30.9Update to 5.30.10
CVE-2023-6495
Medium4.4Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via settings
≤5.30.9Update to 5.30.10
CVE-2024-0602
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.30.3Update to 5.30.4
CVE-2023-2433
High8.8Yet Another Related Posts Plugin <= 5.30.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via Shortcode
<5.30.3Update to 5.30.3
CVE-2023-0579

Same weakness (CSRF)

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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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