Dropdown Menu Widget <= 1.9.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2021-25113
CVSS	Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published	March 14, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Krzysztof Zając

Description

The Dropdown Menu Widget WordPress plugin through 1.9.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving its settings, allowing low privilege users such as subscriber to update them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	dropdown-menu-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.9.7
Patched Version

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