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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-8477
CVE-2024-8477:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) plugin for WordPress contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in versions up to and including 3.1.87. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence, with the CVE identifier CVE-2024-8477 being assigned on October 9, 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from missing or incorrect nonce validation in the Init() function. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The weakness is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (NVD).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to log out of a Brevo connection through a forged request, provided they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a malicious link (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
A patch has been released in version 3.1.88 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the vulnerability (WordPress Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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