Featured Image from URL (FIFU) <= 3.9.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-2241
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published June 30, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Raad Haddad

Description

The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.9.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the fifu_update_menu_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger plugin options updates via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for Featured Image from URL (FIFU)

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug featured-image-from-url (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.0.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.9.9
Patched Version
  • 4.0.0

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