Page creation and deletion via forged AJAX requests
Published Jan 5, 2023 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in Swifty Page Manager 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or delete pages through forged requests. Several WordPress AJAX handlers for page creation, deletion, and related management actions accept state-changing requests without correctly validating a nonce. Exploitation requires an administrator's authenticated browser to submit the forged request, enabling the exposed page-management action under that session.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Swifty Page Manager 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or delete pages through forged requests. Several WordPress AJAX handlers for page creation, deletion, and related management actions accept state-changing requests without correctly validating a nonce. Exploitation requires an administrator's authenticated browser to submit the forged request, enabling the exposed page-management action under that session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-0088
- Published
- Jan 5, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- SwiftyLife.com
- Product
- Swifty Page Manager
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 5, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=3.0.1
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