Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-51655

CVE-2024-51655:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability has been identified in Microkid Custom Author URL WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2024-51655. The vulnerability affects versions up to 2.0.1 and was discovered on November 1, 2024, by researcher SOPROBRO. The vulnerability allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks through CSRF (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires no authentication for exploitation (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow malicious actors to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The combination of CSRF with Stored XSS capabilities increases the potential impact on affected systems (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available. Website administrators are advised to implement the virtual patch through Patchstack's security solution (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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