November 14, 2026

CVE Watchtower

CVE-2021-24249Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Wordfence

Vulnerability Summary

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.2 suffered from a Cross-Site Request Forgery issue, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator export files, which could then be downloaded by the attacker to get access to PII, such as email, home addresses etc
Severity Level
HIGH(8.8)
Published Date
Apr 12, 2021
Last Modified
Jan 22, 2024
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation yet
Root Weakness (CWE)
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) β†—
The web application does not sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request.
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics — Score 8.8 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

Affected & Patched Versions

Affected Versions
  • Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing & Member Directories for WordPress * - 5.11.1
Patched Versions
  • Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing & Member Directories for WordPress 1

What to do

Plan remediation soon. No exploitation is confirmed yet, but the severity is high.

  1. Check whether you run the affected product and which version.
  2. Update to a patched version listed above, then confirm the new version.

Timeline

  • Apr 12, 2021Published
  • Jan 22, 2024Record last modified

Score, severity and exploitation changes are tracked from the day Watchtower started logging them.

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External References

Data last checked: Nov 14, 2026 17:12 UTC