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Unpatched CSRF flaw in older plugin versions

Old Post View Count versions carry a cross-site request forgery flaw that stayed unpatched across several releases.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 6 October 2023 · last reported 7 February 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Several site owners report that the Post View Count plugin has a known cross-site request forgery weakness, which can let an attacker trick a logged-in user into performing unwanted actions.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.