CVE-2021-4401 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the Style Kits plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 1.8.0. This flaw stems from inadequate nonce validation in the update_posts_stylekit() function. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this by tricking a site administrator into clicking a malicious link, allowing them to update style kits for posts. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with potential for high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, requiring user interaction but no authentication. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:analogwp:style_kits:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.