Autolinks <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2022-1112
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	April 13, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Vaibhav Nitin Gaikwad

Description

The Autolinks WordPress plugin through 1.0.1 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, and does not sanitise as well as escape them, which could allow attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site scripting against a logged in admin via a CSRF attack

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	autolinks (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.0.1
Patched Version

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