WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Smartsupp < 3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing or incorrect nonce validation the performAction() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update custom code among other actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
smartsupp-live-chat
Fixed in 3.7

References

CVE
CVE-2024-38790
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/smartsupp-live-chat/wordpress-smartsupp-plugin-3-6-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

Classification

Type
CSRF
OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352
CVSS
4.3 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ananda Dhakal
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
daeb6139-406f-4af0-a622-43beb567bb14

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-07-20 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-07-25 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2024-08-16 (about 1 year ago)

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