WP Extra File Types <= 0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24936
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published December 27, 2021
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher ZhongFu Su

Description

The WP Extra File Types WordPress plugin before 0.5.1 does not have CSRF check when saving its settings, nor sanitise and escape some of them, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

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Vulnerability Details for WP Extra File Types

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-extra-file-types (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 0.5.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 0.5
Patched Version
  • 0.5.1

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