Child Theme Generator <= 2.2.7 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Folder Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published November 19, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The Child Theme Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerability to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient nonce validation on the section_remove function. This makes it possible for attackers to delete arbitrary folders on the affected site, if they can successfully trick a site's administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug child-theme-generator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.7
Patched Version
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