Better Font Awesome <= 2.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-37405
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published August 25, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rasi Afeef
Description

The Better Font Awesome plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings, via 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 better-font-awesome (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.0.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.1
Patched Version
  • 2.0.2
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