CVE-2026-6401Bottom Bar <= 0.1.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 92% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 0.1.7
References
References5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db0715ed-a06e-4a68-b9c3-408887cae113?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/trunk/bottom-bar-admin.php#L16 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/tags/0.1.7/bottom-bar-admin.php#L16 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/trunk/bottom-bar-admin.php#L59 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bottom-bar/tags/0.1.7/bottom-bar-admin.php#L59 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-31039 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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