Change Uploaded File Permissions <= 4.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Options Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1788
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 23, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

Due to missing checks the Change Uploaded File Permissions WordPress plugin through 4.0.0 is vulnerable to CSRF attacks. This can be used to change the file and folder permissions of any folder. This could be problematic when specific files like ini files are made readable for everyone due to this.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug change-uploaded-file-permissions (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.0
Patched Version
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