PT-2022-13750 · WordPress · Wordpress

Harald Eilertsen + 1 · Published 2022-08-22 · Updated 2022-08-23 · CVE-2022-1251

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ask me WordPress theme versions prior to 6.8.4

Description The issue allows an attacker to trick a user into changing their profile information by sending a crafted request to the Edit Profile page, due to the lack of nonce checks when processing POST requests.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.8.4, update to version 6.8.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Edit Profile page until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-1251

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 3

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/34b3fc35-381a-4bd7-87e3-f1ef0a15a349 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1251 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1251 · Vendor Advisory