PlugNedit Adaptive Editor < 6.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2015-9422
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published August 25, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marcin Probola
Description

The PlugNedit Adaptive Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions before 6.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page via 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 plugnedit (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 6.2.0
Patched Version
  • 6.2.0
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