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Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget <= 1.5.7 — Cross-Site Request Forgery via wtpsw_post_view_count

CVE-2022-46846Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.5.7Update to 1.5.8 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget wp-trending-post-slider-and-widget

  1. Affected≤ 1.5.7
  2. Patched in1.5.8

Update to 1.5.8 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.7. Version 1.5.8 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget.
  • 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 1.5.8, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Cat.

The Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce verification on the wtpsw_post_view_count() function in versions up to, and including, 1.5.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to increment the post view count via a forged request, granted they can trick a site 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

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2.9.1 – 2.9.1Update to 2.9.1.1
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Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal
≤2.7Update to 2.8
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Same weakness (CSRF)

All CSRF
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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