Description
The Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wpaft_option_page' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and delete taxonomy meta, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Published: 2024-10-22
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-50040 The Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wpaft_option_page' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and delete taxonomy meta, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
History

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Aftabhusain
Aftabhusain category And Taxonomy Meta Fields
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:aftabhusain:category_and_taxonomy_meta_fields:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Aftabhusain
Aftabhusain category And Taxonomy Meta Fields

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'wpaft_option_page' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add and delete taxonomy meta, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Title Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields <= 1.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Taxonomy Meta Add/Delete
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}


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Aftabhusain Category And Taxonomy Meta Fields
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:44:17.116Z

Reserved: 2024-10-07T16:34:06.072Z

Link: CVE-2024-9588

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-10-22T13:16:45.985Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-10-22T08:15:03.563

Modified: 2024-10-25T21:15:39.970

Link: CVE-2024-9588

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

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Weaknesses