# WP Photo Album Plus <= 9.3.04.002 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Comment Management Actions

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1292
- **Plugin:** WP Photo Album Plus (`wp-photo-album-plus`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 9.3.04.003
- **Fixed in:** 9.3.04.003 (Update to 9.3.04.003 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-352
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-21)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/wp-photo-album-plus
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-19
- **Published:** 2026-10-21
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1292/

## Description

The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the photo comment management admin page (wppa_manage_comments) in all versions up to, and including, 9.3.04.002, due to missing nonce validation in the process_bulk_action() function, which handles both bulk and single comment actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete photo comments, change their status to approved, spam or pending, or replace their text via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1292/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-photo-album-plus/tags/9.3.04.003/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1292/

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