Description
WordPress Plugin Colorful Categories is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow a remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Colorful Categories version 2.0.14 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 2.0.15 or latest
References
https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:D92DB61F-341C-4F3F-B962-326194DDBD1E
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/colorful-categories/trunk/readme.txt
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