Dropdown Menu Widget <= 1.9.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-03-14 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginDropdown Menu Widget

Affected Version<= 1.9.7

CVSS6.4Medium

CVECVE-2021-25113

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Vulnerability Overview

The Dropdown Menu Widget WordPress plugin through 1.9.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving its settings, allowing low privilege users such as subscriber to update them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

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.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25113 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/66b86375-81e3-4ac8-90e3-8ae34c28c1c2

CVSS Vector

6.4

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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