WPML < 4.3.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2020-10568
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published March 9, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Gerard Arall

Description

The sitepress-multilingual-cms (WPML) plugin before 4.3.7 for WordPress has CSRF due to a loose comparison. This leads to remote code execution in includes/class-wp-installer.php via a series of requests that leverage unintended comparisons of integers to strings.

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Vulnerability Details for WPML Multilingual CMS

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sitepress-multilingual-cms
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.3.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 4.3.7
Patched Version
  • 4.3.7

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