Discy <= 5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Reset

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1422
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 16, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Bikram Kharal
Description

The Discy WordPress theme before 5.2 does not check for CSRF tokens in the AJAX action discy_reset_options, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into resetting the site settings back to defaults.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug discy (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2
Patched Version
  • 5.2
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