Thumbnail carousel slider <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Mass Slider Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-5821
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published October 26, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ala Arfaoui
Description

The Thumbnail carousel slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing nonce validation on the deleteselected function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete sliders in bulk via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0 - 1.0
Patched Version
  • 1.0.1
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