CVE-2022-27629
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in 'MicroPayments - Paid Author Subscriptions, Content, Downloads, Membership' WordPress plugin versions prior to 1.9.6 was discovered and disclosed on April 15, 2022. The vulnerability affects the plugin's authentication mechanism and allows remote unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrator authentication and perform unintended operations (JVN Report).

Technical details

The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-27629 with a CVSS v3.0 base score of 4.3. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), requires user interaction (UI:R), has unchanged scope (S:U), with no impact on confidentiality (C:N), low impact on integrity (I:L), and no impact on availability (A:N) (JVN Report).

Impact

If successfully exploited, the vulnerability allows an attacker to perform unintended operations when an administrator views a malicious page while logged in. This could potentially lead to unauthorized actions being executed with administrative privileges (JVN Report).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.9.6 of the MicroPayments plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability. The fix was implemented through a security patch that addresses the CSRF issue (WordPress Plugin).

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