Post SMTP <= 2.1.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Blind Server-Side Request Forgery

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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

CVE	CVE-2022-2352
CVSS	Medium (6.6)
Publicly Published	September 5, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Raad Haddad

Description

The Post SMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to blind Server-Side Request Forgery. This is due to improper authorization on some of the plugin's AJAX actions.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	post-smtp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.1.6
Patched Version	2.1.7

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