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CVE-2024-4086
CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin <= 4.2.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Medium4.3EPSS 0.25%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when saving settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the plugin's settings or reset them via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
creativemindssolutions · CM Tooltip Glossary
- affected ≤ 4.2.11
References (2)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3e2ddde-1421-4352-b93a-1492574f624e?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3076616/enhanced-tooltipglossary/trunk/settings/CMTT_Settings.php?contextall=1&old=3029791&old_path=%2Fenhanced-tooltipglossary%2Ftrunk%2Fsettings%2FCMTT_Settings.php (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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