Responsive Menu <= 4.0.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24161
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 10, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

In the Responsive Menu (free and Pro) WordPress plugins before 4.0.4, attackers could craft a request and trick an administrator into uploading a zip archive containing malicious PHP files. The attacker could then access those files to achieve remote code execution and further infect the targeted site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug responsive-menu (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.4
Patched Version
  • 4.0.4
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