WP Armour Honeypot Anti Spam <= 1.5.6 -Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Options Update

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE Not available
CVSS Critical (9.6)
Publicly Published February 8, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The Armour Honeypot Anti Spam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the wpa_save_settings() function in versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This makes it possible for attackers to modify arbitrary site options granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug honeypot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.7
Patched Version
  • 1.5.7
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