PlugNedit Adaptive Editor < 6.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.5
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2015-9422
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 25, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marcin Probola

Description

The PlugNedit Adaptive Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions before 6.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page 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 plugnedit

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug plugnedit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.2.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 6.2.0
Patched Version
  • 6.2.0

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