Maintenance Switch <= 1.5.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via 'admin_action_request'

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-29235
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published August 28, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Elliot
Description

The Maintenance Switch plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'admin_action_request' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to restore default settings, create, or delete theme files based on the plugin's settings 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 maintenance-switch (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.2
Patched Version
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