One User Avatar <= 2.3.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2021-09-20 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.3.7

Affected PluginOne User Avatar | User Profile Picture

Affected Version< 2.3.7

CVSS6.5Medium

CVECVE-2021-24675

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Vulnerability Overview

The One User Avatar WordPress plugin before 2.3.7 does not check for CSRF when updating the Avatar in page where the [avatar_upload] shortcode is embed. As a result, attackers could make logged in user change their avatar via a CSRF attack

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.3.7, 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-2021-24675 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c35ed3ef-49bd-4f64-bb0f-2abedb7b978e

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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