MouseWheel Smooth Scroll <= 5.6 - Plugin's Setting Update via Cross-Site Request Forgery

2021-10-18 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.7

Affected PluginMouseWheel Smooth Scroll

Affected Version<= 5.6

CVSS6.5Medium

CVECVE-2021-24852

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Vulnerability Overview

The MouseWheel Smooth Scroll WordPress plugin before 5.7 does not have CSRF check in place on its settings page, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.7, 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-2021-24852 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/487d94e8-e4f1-4da8-914c-96157f8ae14d

CVSS Vector

6.5

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone

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