Insights from Google PageSpeed <= 4.0.6 - Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery

2022-06-27 00:00

Daniel Ruf

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 4.0.7

Affected PluginInsights from Google PageSpeed

Affected Version<= 4.0.6

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2022-1672

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Vulnerability Overview

The Insights from Google PageSpeed WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 does not verify for CSRF before doing various actions such as deleting Custom URLs, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin perform such actions via CSRF attacks

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.0.7, 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-2022-1672 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c8440240-f652-4372-9ed8-f3eb3b8336e0

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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