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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-9598
CVE-2024-9598:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin for WordPress contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in versions up to and including 1.0.99.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 24, 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'proxy' function. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is tracked as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (NVD).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to send the logged-in user's cookies to their own server via a forged request, provided they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to a version newer than 1.0.99.1 which contains the security fix. The patch for this vulnerability can be found in the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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