# CVE-2024-13753: Ultimate Classified Listings <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Account Takeover

> Attackers can trick users into modifying their email address via CSRF, potentially leading to account takeover in the Ultimate Classified Listings WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gf8q-w7qq-42f4

## What is CVE-2024-13753?

CVE-2024-13753 is a high-severity vulnerability in webcodingplace Ultimate Classified Listings, published on 20 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Ultimate Classified Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_profile function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify victim's email via a forged request, which might lead to account takeover, granted they can trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13753?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Webcodingplace Ultimate Classified Listings.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-13753?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13753 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-13753 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13753 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in webcodingplace Ultimate Classified Listings

- [CVE-2024-5882](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5882/): Ultimate Classified Listings < 1.3 - Unauthenticated LFI (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-6529](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6529/): Ultimate Classified Listings < 1.4 - Reflected XSS (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-5883](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5883/): Ultimate Classified Listings < 1.3 - Reflected XSS (medium 4.7)
- [CVE-2024-13748](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13748/): Ultimate Classified Listings <= 1.4 Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Title Parameter (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13753 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13753 is a high-severity vulnerability in webcodingplace Ultimate Classified Listings, published on 20 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13753 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: webcodingplace Ultimate Classified Listings. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13753/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13753/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13753
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13753
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13753

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13753/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.