Post Index <= 0.7.5 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-34637
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 26, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Kentaro Kuroki, Cryptography Laboratory in Tokyo Denki University
Description

The Post Index WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the OptionsPage function found in the ~/php/settings.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 0.7.5.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug post-index (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.7.5
Patched Version
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