# CVE-2024-37493: WordPress Posterity theme <= 3.3 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

> Attackers can trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions in the Posterity WordPress theme.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:** 2 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-f5cm-hf7h-g464

## What is CVE-2024-37493?

CVE-2024-37493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in sonalsinha21 Posterity, published on 2 Jan 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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in sonalsinha21 Posterity posterity allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Posterity: from n/a through <= 3.3.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-37493?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-37493?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-37493 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-37493 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-37493 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-37493 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-37493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in sonalsinha21 Posterity, published on 2 Jan 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-2024-37493 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: sonalsinha21 Posterity. 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-2024-37493/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37493/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37493
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37493
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-37493

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37493/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.