Category Specific RSS Feed Subscription <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2019-07-18 00:00

Gota Abe of Cryptography Laboratory

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.1

Affected PluginCategory Specific RSS feed Subscription

Affected Version<= 2.0

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2019-5993

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Category Specific RSS feed Subscription version v2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.1, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5993 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/41e5de5d-fea6-4be0-bcf3-b282599317d1

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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