Clean-Contact <= 1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1914
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The plugin Clean-Contact is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the clean_contact_conf_page function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript, that will execute whenever a user accesses the /back-ups page, 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 clean-contact (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6
Patched Version
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