The Popup Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.1. This is due to a flawed nonce implementation in the 'publish_unpublish_popupbox' function that verifies a self-created nonce rather than one submitted in the request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the publish status of popups via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00008.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
ays-pro Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups unaffected
Version Status Constraints
* affected ≤ 6.1.1

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References
Link Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.0/admin/partials/ays-pb-admin-display.php#L22 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.0/includes/lists/class-ays-pb-list-table.php#L701 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3439514@ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.1/&new=3444612@ays-popup-box/tags/6.1.2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/585a9eb4-f394-4cb2-9050-659171a994d9?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Ays-pro
Ays-pro popup Box
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Ays-pro
Ays-pro popup Box
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Description The Popup Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.1. This is due to a flawed nonce implementation in the 'publish_unpublish_popupbox' function that verifies a self-created nonce rather than one submitted in the request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the publish status of popups via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking a link.
Title Popup Box <= 6.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Popup Status Change
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-02T16:29:04.500Z

Reserved: 2026-01-19T01:15:36.466Z

Link: CVE-2026-1165

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-02T16:25:10.726Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-01-31T15:15:50.480

Modified: 2026-02-03T16:44:36.630

Link: CVE-2026-1165

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Updated: 2026-02-02T09:26:41Z

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