Email Address Encoder <= 1.0.23 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via eae_clear_caches()

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-43927
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 26, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The Email Address Encoder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.23. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the eae_clear_caches() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to flush page caches via a 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 email-address-encoder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.23
Patched Version
  • 1.0.24
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