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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-1165 Detail

Description

The Popup Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.1. This is due to a flawed nonce implementation in the 'publish_unpublish_popupbox' function that verifies a self-created nonce rather than one submitted in the request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the publish status of popups via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.0/admin/partials/ays-pb-admin-display.php#L22 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.0/includes/lists/class-ays-pb-list-table.php#L701 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3439514@ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.1/&new=3444612@ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.2/ Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/585a9eb4-f394-4cb2-9050-659171a994d9?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-1165
NVD Published Date:
01/31/2026
NVD Last Modified:
01/31/2026
Source:
Wordfence