Email Subscribers & Newsletters <= 4.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery on Settings

2019-11-13 00:00

Chloe Chamberland

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.2.3

Affected PluginEmail Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress

Affected Version<= 4.2.2

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2019-19981

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Vulnerability Overview

The WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, before 4.2.3 had a flaw that allowed for CSRF to be exploited on all plugin settings.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.2.3, 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-2019-19981 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2152db7-be9a-4e09-97cf-60445d87b576

CVSS Vector

5.4

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityLow

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