MM-Breaking News Plugin up to 0.7.9 on WordPress cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in MM-Breaking News Plugin up to 0.7.9 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-8054. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MM-Breaking News Plugin up to 0.7.9 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The MM-Breaking News WordPress plugin through 0.7.9 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.

The weakness was published by Daniel Ruf. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-8054 since 08/21/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit 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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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Remote: Yes

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08/21/2024 🔍
09/12/2024 +22 days 🔍
09/12/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/10/2025 +179 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Researcher: Daniel Ruf
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-8054 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-8054
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-277260

Entryinfo

Created: 09/12/2024 10:13
Updated: 03/10/2025 14:11
Changes: 09/12/2024 10:13 (20), 09/12/2024 10:14 (34), 09/28/2024 01:36 (21), 03/10/2025 14:11 (3)
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