Clean-Contact <= 1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Strategic Overview
Vulnerability Overview
The plugin Clean-Contact is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the clean_contact_conf_page function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript, that will execute whenever a user accesses the /back-ups page, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- 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.
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