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CVE-2021-24636: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Print My Blog WordPress Plugin before version 3.4.2 contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability. The plugin fails to implement proper nonce checks, which makes it vulnerable to CSRF attacks. This vulnerability was discovered and reported in August 2021 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to the absence of nonce checks in the plugin's functionality. This security weakness has been assigned CVE-2021-24636 with a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.4 (medium severity). The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and falls into the OWASP Top 10 category A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management (WPScan).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into deactivating the Print My Blog plugin and deleting all saved data associated with the plugin by making them click on a malicious link (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.4.2 of the Print My Blog WordPress plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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