CVE-2021-4394

Summary

CVE-2021-4394 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the Locations plugin for WordPress. Versions up to and including 3.2.1 are susceptible to this issue. The root cause is the lack of proper nonce validation on the saveCustomFields() function. This weakness enables unauthenticated attackers to manipulate custom field meta data by inducing site administrators to execute malicious requests, such as clicking on a specially crafted link.

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