Option Editor <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-13852
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 17, 2025
Last Updated February 18, 2025
Researcher Colin Xu
Description

The Option Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the plugin_page() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug option-editor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0
Patched Version
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