Description

WordPress Plugin Fileviewer 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 Fileviewer version 2.2 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://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:DDD37827-F4C1-4806-8846-D06D9FBF23DD

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fileviewer/#description

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-24491 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF