Shantz WordPress QOTD <= 1.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24380
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 19, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Prashant Karman Patel
Description

The Shantz WordPress QOTD for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.2.2 This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make logged in administrators change them to arbitrary values via a forged request.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug shantz-wordpress-qotd (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.2
Patched Version
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