Core Tweaks WP Setup <= 4.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24803
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 21, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Core Tweaks WP Setup WordPress plugin through 4.1 allows to bulk-set many settings in WordPress, including the admin email, as well as creating a new admin account. There is no CSRF protection in place, allowing an attacker to arbitrary change the admin email or create another admin account and takeover the website via CSRF attacks

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug seo-automatic-wp-core-tweaks (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1
Patched Version
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