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A vulnerability has been found in wedevs Appsero Helper Plugin up to 1.3.2 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Impacted is the function appsero_helper of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-13436. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in wedevs Appsero Helper Plugin up to 1.3.2 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function appsero_helper of the component Setting 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Appsero Helper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'appsero_helper' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was presented by SOPROBRO. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-13436 since 01/15/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• wedevs

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• Appsero Helper Plugin

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• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2

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