Description

WordPress Plugin VM Backups 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 VM Backups version 1.0 is vulnerable.

Remediation

Edit the source code to ensure that CSRF protection is implemented with Nonce-like mechanism or disable the plugin until a fix is available

References

https://0xb9.blog/inactive-wordpress-plugins-leading-to-cross-site-request-forgery-to-database-downloads/

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:187E6967-6961-4843-A9D5-866F6EBDB7BC

https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=WPEX-ID:B69EA1BC-3C9B-47D7-A164-C860EE46A9AF

https://wordpress.org/plugins/vm-backups/#description

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-24172 CVE-2021-24173 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF