Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.15.22 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2015-05-25 00:00
James Hooker

Strategic Overview

Vulnerability Overview

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.15.22. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to consume resource utilization (by performing a large number of scans simultaneously), 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 4.15.23, 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

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