MainWP (Various extensions) - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 18, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Patchstack
Description

Several MainWP extensions for WordPress are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing or incorrect nonce validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke functions normally intended for higher-privileged users such as administrators via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

21 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-wordfence-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.7
Patched Version
  • 4.0.8
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-ithemes-security-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.1
Patched Version
  • 4.1.2
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-file-uploader-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1
Patched Version
  • 4.1.1
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-code-snippets-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-post-plus-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.3
Patched Version
  • 4.1.1
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-seo-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.1
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-maintenance-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.1
Patched Version
  • 4.1.2
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-page-speed-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-clone-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-article-uploader-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-broken-links-checker-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0
Patched Version
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-comments-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.6
Patched Version
  • 4.0.7
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-updraftplus-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.6
Patched Version
  • 4.0.7
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-favorites-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.10
Patched Version
  • 4.0.11
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-staging-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.3
Patched Version
  • 4.0.4
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug boilerplate-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1
Patched Version
  • 4.1.1
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-blogvault-backup-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3
Patched Version
  • 4.1.2
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-google-analytics-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.4
Patched Version
  • 4.0.5
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-buddy-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.1
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-post-dripper-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.4
Patched Version
  • 4.0.5
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp-rocket-extension (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.3
Patched Version
  • 4.0.4
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