NewsPlugin <= 1.0.18 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-34631
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 21, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Taichi Ichimura, Cryptography Laboratory in Tokyo Denki University
Description

The NewsPlugin WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the handle_save_style function found in the ~/news-plugin.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.0.18.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug newsplugin (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.18
Patched Version
  • 1.1.0
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