Description
WordPress Plugin NotificationX-WooCommerce Sales Notification Popup, Custom & Live Sales Notification, FOMO, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Sticky Notification Bar 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 NotificationX-WooCommerce Sales Notification Popup, Custom & Live Sales Notification, FOMO, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Sticky Notification Bar version 1.8.2 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Update to plugin version 1.8.3 or latest
References
https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/notificationx/trunk/README.txt
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