WP Edit Menu Plugin up to 1.4.x on WordPress AJAX Action cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in WP Edit Menu Plugin up to 1.4.x on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component AJAX Action Handler. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-2276. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WP Edit Menu Plugin up to 1.4.x on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component AJAX Action Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The WP Edit Menu WordPress plugin before 1.5.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts/pages from the blog

The weakness was disclosed 08/22/2022. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-2276 since 06/30/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at plugins.trac.wordpress.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.1

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: WP Edit Menu Plugin 1.5.0
Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org

Timelineinfo

06/30/2022 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-2276 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-2276
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-206912

Entryinfo

Created: 08/22/2022 10:25 PM
Changes: 08/22/2022 10:25 PM (42)
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Cache ID: 18:4B2:40

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