Real-Time Find and Replace <= 3.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2020-13641
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published April 27, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland - Wordfence

Description

An issue was discovered in the Real-Time Find and Replace plugin before 4.0.2 for WordPress. The far_options_page function did not do any nonce verification, allowing for requests to be forged on behalf of an administrator. The find and replace rules could be updated with malicious JavaScript, allowing for that be executed later in the victims browser.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug real-time-find-and-replace (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.0.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.9
Patched Version
  • 4.0.2

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