Contact Us Page – Contact People <= 3.6.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Reset
Strategic Overview
<= 3.6.1N/AVulnerability Overview
The Contact Us Page – Contact People plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.6.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the reset_settings function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to rest the plugin to its defaults, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
REMEDIATION: Update to version 3.6.2, 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.
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