MouseWheel Smooth Scroll <= 5.6 - Plugin's Setting Update via Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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

CVE	CVE-2021-24852
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published	October 18, 2021
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	apple502j

Description

The MouseWheel Smooth Scroll WordPress plugin before 5.7 does not have CSRF check in place on its settings page, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	mousewheel-smooth-scroll (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 5.6
Patched Version	5.7

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