CVE-2021-24635: Bootstrapped Visual Link Preview

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

Affected products

• Bootstrapped Visual Link Preview: before 2.2.3 (fixed in 2.2.3)

Published 2021-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.