WordPress Menu Plugin — Superfly Responsive Menu <= 5.0.29 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion

2024-08-01 17:45
M.Awad

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.0.30
Affected Version<= 5.0.29
CVSS8.8High
CVECVE-2024-3238
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Vulnerability Overview

The WordPress Menu Plugin — Superfly Responsive Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.29. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_handle_delete_icons() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Please not the CSRF was patched in 5.0.28, however, adequate directory traversal protection wasn't introduced until 5.0.30.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.0.30, 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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