Description

WordPress Plugin Maintenance 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 Maintenance version 3.6.4 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/2019/08/15/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability-in-maintenance/

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Severity

High

Classification

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

Tags

Missing Update CSRF