Description

WordPress Plugin WP Maintenance 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 WP Maintenance version 5.0.5 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 5.0.7 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/11/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-wp-maintenance-plugin/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-maintenance/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2019-19979 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF