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This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary user, term, and post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.0029,"percentile":0.21695,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-352"],"published":"2023-11-21T08:32:47Z","modified":"2026-06-17T06:49:20Z","products":[{"vendor":"gandhihitesh9","product":"post meta data manager"},{"vendor":"wpexpertplugins","product":"post_meta_data_manager"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d49b8c44-4dad-4990-a8a8-116b424a7dfa?source=cve","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-meta-data-manager/tags/1.2.1/readme.txt","tags":["x_transferred","Release Notes"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager\u0026new=2981559%40post-meta-data-manager\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=","tags":["x_transferred","Patch"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager\u0026new=2994271%40post-meta-data-manager\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=","tags":["x_transferred","Patch"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5776"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fm8h-fg2j-xr88"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2023-5776","title":"Post Meta Data Manager \u003c= 1.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Post, Term, and User Meta Deletion","description":"The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. 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This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary user, term, and post meta via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.","status":"published","published":"2023-11-21T09:30:23Z","modified":"2023-11-29T18:30:25Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-352"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:55:07.446793Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2023-5776","description":"The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the pmdm_wp_ajax_delete_meta, pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta, and pmdm_wp_delete_user_meta functions. 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