CVE-2026-6401

medium

Description

The Bottom Bar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to and including 0.1.7. This is due to missing nonce verification on the plugin's settings update forms handled in bottom-bar-admin.php. None of the three settings forms (main settings, sharing services, restore defaults) include a wp_nonce_field(), and the server-side processing code never calls check_admin_referer() or any equivalent nonce validation before processing POST data and calling update_option(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trick a logged-in administrator into submitting a crafted request that updates plugin configuration options, such as changing the language, maximum post counts, or enabled sharing services.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db0715ed-a06e-4a68-b9c3-408887cae113?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/trunk/bottom-bar-admin.php#L59

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/trunk/bottom-bar-admin.php#L16

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/tags/0.1.7/bottom-bar-admin.php#L59

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/tags/0.1.7/bottom-bar-admin.php#L16

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-20

Updated: 2026-05-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium