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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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-24802 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF