CVE-2024-32451
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the wpWax Legal Pages WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to 1.4.2. The vulnerability was initially reported on January 20, 2024, by security researcher Dhabaleshwar Das, and was publicly disclosed on April 12, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium), and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. This scoring indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but does require user interaction (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered low severity as it requires user interaction and only affects integrity with low impact (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is classified as requiring no privileges for exploitation but does need user interaction. It has been assigned a low patch priority, suggesting that while exploitable, it is unlikely to be widely exploited in the wild (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.4.3 of the Legal Pages plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.4.3 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

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