RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-1472
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published March 17, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

The RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on its AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those functions, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Actions include resetting the API key, accessing or deleting log files, and deleting cache among others.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug unusedcss (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.1
Patched Version
  • 1.7.2
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