Workreap
CVE-2021-24500
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Ownership verification
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Several AJAX actions available in the Workreap WordPress theme before 2.2.2 lacked CSRF protections, as well as allowing insecure direct object references that were not validated. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-283. Several AJAX actions available in the Workreap WordPress theme before 2.2.2 lacked CSRF protections, as well as allowing insecure direct object references that were not validated. This allows an attacker to trick a logged in user to submit a POST request to the vulnerable site, potentially modifying or deleting arbitrary objects on the target site. Affected products include: Amentotech Workreap. Version information: before 2.2.2.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Several AJAX actions available in the Workreap WordPress theme before 2.2.2 lacked CSRF protections, as well as allowing insecure direct object references that were not validated. This allows an attacker to trick a logged in user to submit a POST request to the vulnerable site, potentially modifying or deleting arbitrary objects on the target site.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
The Workreap WordPress theme before 2.2.2 AJAX actions workreap_award_temp_file_uploader and workreap_temp_file_uploader
The Workreap WordPress theme before 2.2.2 had several AJAX actions missing authorization checks to verify that a user wa
The Workreap WordPress theme before 2.6.3 has a vulnerability with the notifications feature as it's possible to read an
The Workreap WordPress theme before 2.6.4 does not verify that an addon service belongs to the user issuing the request,
The Workreap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and
A authentication bypass vulnerability in all (CVSS 9.8). Critical severity with potential for significant impact on affe
A file upload vulnerability in all (CVSS 8.8). High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation.
GitHub PoC
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