Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.2 — Unauthorised AJAX Calls
CVE-2021-24635Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <2.2.3Update to 2.2.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.4
- CVSS
- 5.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Visual Link Preview visual-link-preview
- Affected< 2.2.3
- Patched in2.2.3
Update to 2.2.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 2.2.3. Version 2.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Visual Link Preview.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.2.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Visual Link Preview to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to apple502j.
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
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Visual Link Preview
All 6| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure ≤2.3.1Update to 2.4.0 | CVE-2026-54821 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure ≤2.4.1Update to 2.4.2 | CVE-2026-48878 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery ≤2.3.0Update to 2.3.1 | CVE-2026-39670 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.2.9Update to 2.3.0 | CVE-2026-24984 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via visual-link-preview Shortcode ≤2.2.7Update to 2.2.8 | CVE-2025-11987 |
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.3.1Update to 2.4.0
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure
≤2.4.1Update to 2.4.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery
≤2.3.0Update to 2.3.1
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.2.9Update to 2.3.0
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via visual-link-preview Shortcode
≤2.2.7Update to 2.2.8
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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