Private Files Plugin up to 0.40 on WordPress cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Private Files Plugin up to 0.40 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-1793. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Private Files Plugin up to 0.40 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Private Files WordPress plugin through 0.40 is missing CSRF check when disabling the protection, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin perform such action via a CSRF attack and make the blog public

The weakness was disclosed 06/13/2022. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-1793 since 05/18/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

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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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Private Files Plugin

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40

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