Description

WordPress Plugin Ads for WP-Advanced Ads & Adsense Solution for WP & AMP is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow a remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Ads for WP-Advanced Ads & Adsense Solution for WP & AMP version 1.8 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Edit the source code to ensure that CSRF protection is implemented with Nonce-like mechanism or disable the plugin until a fix is available

References

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/06/27/the-quality-of-the-wpscan-vulnerability-databases-data-is-getting-worse-and-there-is-no-longer-a-good-way-to-work-around-that/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF