Description
The Advanced Twenty Seventeen WordPress plugin through 1.3.1 does not perform any capability or nonce check on the action that creates and activates its bundled child , allowing any authenticated user such as a subscriber to switch the site's active site-wide, and allowing the same action to be triggered against any logged-in user including an administrator via CSRF.
References1
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.4
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 4 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-862
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