CVE-2020-36738: Coolplugins Cool Timeline

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cool Timeline (Horizontal & Vertical Timeline) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ctl_save() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save field icons via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Coolplugins Cool Timeline: before 2.0.3 (fixed in 2.0.3)

Published 2023-07-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.