CVE-2020-36505
Published: 01 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-36505 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Delete All Comments Easily Project Delete All Comments Easily. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 46.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-23991
Vulnerability details
The Delete All Comments Easily WordPress plugin through 1.3 is lacking Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) checks, which could result in an unauthenticated attacker making a logged in admin delete all comments from the blog.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.