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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Classic CSRF: attacker is network-unauthenticated (PR:N) but needs victim to click (UI:R); account takeover yields full C/I/A impact within the same site (S:U).
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CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Unauthenticated Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in WordPress Dating Theme <= 11.2.0 versions.
AnalysisAI
Cross-Site Request Forgery in PremiumPress WordPress Dating Theme versions 11.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to coerce authenticated victims into performing unintended state-changing actions, with Patchstack documenting an account takeover path. The CVSS 8.8 rating reflects high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability when a targeted user is tricked into visiting attacker-controlled content. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the theme has not been listed in CISA KEV.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability is rooted in CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery), where the WordPress Dating Theme accepts authenticated state-changing requests without validating an anti-CSRF token (such as WordPress's wp_nonce mechanism) or strictly verifying the request origin/referer. The affected product is PremiumPress WordPress Dating Theme (CPE cpe:2.3:a:premiumpress_limited.:wordpress_dating_theme), a commercial WordPress theme that ships its own account, profile, and membership management endpoints. Because these endpoints execute under the privileges of the logged-in user's browser session cookie, any cross-origin form or image submission can drive them, and per the Patchstack advisory the chain reaches full account takeover - likely by changing the victim's email/password through a profile-update handler that lacks nonce verification.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory - upgrade the WordPress Dating Theme to a release later than 11.2.0 as soon as PremiumPress publishes a fixed build, tracked via the Patchstack entry at https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/theme/da10/vulnerability/wordpress-wordpress-dating-theme-theme-11-2-0-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-to-account-takeover-vulnerability (no exact fixed version was provided in the input data, so confirm the patched release number directly with PremiumPress before relying on it). Until the patched version is deployed, compensating controls include installing a virtual-patching WAF such as Patchstack or Wordfence with CSRF rules enabled for theme endpoints, enforcing SameSite=Lax or Strict on the WordPress auth cookies via a security plugin (side effect: may break cross-site embeds and some OAuth flows), and requiring administrators to log out of the dating site before browsing untrusted content. Disabling self-service profile editing for privileged roles, and requiring re-authentication for email/password changes via a 2FA plugin, narrows the account-takeover blast radius at the cost of user friction.
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EUVD-2026-37661