wordpress vertical image slider plugin < 1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.2
- Affected Version
< 1.2- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Vertical Image Slider WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.2. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2015, reported by Ehsan Hosseini.
Vulnerability Overview
The "wordpress vertical image slider plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via several functions in versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload malicious files among other actions granted they can trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Reaching this weakness in Vertical Image Slider < 1.2 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Vertical Image Slider the fix is 1.2: builds < 1.2 are affected, anything from 1.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Vertical Image Slider: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Vertical Image Slider 1.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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