Advance Search <= 1.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Shortcode Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-2739
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published March 25, 2024
Last Updated April 23, 2024
Researcher Bob Matyas
Description

The Advanced Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the WPAS_Advanced_Search_extra_ajax AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete shortcodes via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advance-search (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.6
Patched Version
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