Modal Window – create popup modal window <= 5.3.9 — Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2024-3472Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.3.9Update to 5.3.10 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Modal Window – create popup modal window modal-window
- Affected≤ 5.3.9
- Patched in5.3.10
Update to 5.3.10 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.3.9. Version 5.3.10 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Modal Window – create popup modal window.
- 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
- Update to version 5.3.10, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Modal Window – create popup modal window to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Bob Matyas.
The Modal Window – create popup modal window plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the modal-window page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete modals in bulk 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
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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