What is CVE-2024-3478?

CVE-2024-3478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Herd Effects, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-05-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-3478?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

CSRF in Wow-Company Herd Effects

CVE-2024-3478

The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.7 does not have CSRF checks in some bulk actions, which could allow attackers to make logged in admins perform unwanted actions, such as deleting effects via CSRF attacks

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2024-05-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (11.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 12th percentile — 11.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wow-Company Herd Effects
Herd Effects — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/09f1a696-86ee-47cc-99de-57cfd2a3219d/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3478?: CVE-2024-3478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wow-Company Herd Effects, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-05-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-3478?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.