{"id":"CVE-2021-38342","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-38342","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:57:06.890Z","title":"The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their…","description":"The Nested Pages WordPress plugin <= 3.1.15 was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the `npBulkAction`s and `npBulkEdit` `admin_post` actions, which allowed attackers to trash or permanently purge arbitrary posts as well as changing their status, reassigning their ownership, and editing other metadata.","published":"2021-08-30T19:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:01:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-352"],"affected":["kylephillips/nested pages"],"epss":{"score":0.00492,"percentile":0.41988,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"nvd@nist.gov"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-pat%E2%80%A6on-vulnerability/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38342","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}