WP Simple Adsense Insertion <= 2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1695
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 12, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf
Description

The WP Simple Adsense Insertion WordPress plugin before 2.1 does not perform CSRF checks on updates to its admin page, allowing an attacker to trick a logged in user to manipulate ads and inject arbitrary javascript via submitting a form.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordpress-plugin-for-simple-google-adsense-insertion (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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