WP Armour Honeypot Anti Spam <= 1.5.6 -Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

9.6
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSS 9.6 (Critical)
Publicly Published February 8, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024

Description

The Armour Honeypot Anti Spam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the wpa_save_settings() function in versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for attackers to modify arbitrary site options granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug honeypot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.5.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.5.7
Patched Version
  • 1.5.7

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