Joy of Text Lite Plugin up to 2.3.1 on WordPress Setting cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Joy of Text Lite Plugin up to 2.3.1 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-7984. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Joy of Text Lite Plugin up to 2.3.1 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Setting Handler. 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 Joy Of Text Lite WordPress plugin through 2.3.1 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack

The weakness was published by Guru Raghav Saravanan. The advisory is available at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-7984 since 08/19/2024. 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. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-15245). 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: 4.2

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

08/19/2024 🔍
05/16/2025 +270 days 🔍
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05/17/2025 +1 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Researcher: Guru Raghav Saravanan
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-7984 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-7984
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-309210
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/16/2025 08:39
Updated: 05/17/2025 14:09
Changes: 05/16/2025 08:39 (55), 05/17/2025 13:49 (1), 05/17/2025 14:09 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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