Discy <= 5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Reset

2022-05-16 00:00

Bikram Kharal (themarkib)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.2

Affected ThemeDiscy - Social Questions and Answers WordPress Theme

Affected Version< 5.2

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2022-1422

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Vulnerability Overview

The Discy WordPress theme before 5.2 does not check for CSRF tokens in the AJAX action discy_reset_options, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into resetting the site settings back to defaults.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.2, 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-2022-1422 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f3f821d6-6a4e-4e3b-98e1-e38a34d5c8f9

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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