WP Super Cache <= 1.8 - Unauthenticated Cache Poisoning

Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published October 3, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The WP Super Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Cache Poisoning in versions up to, and including, 1.8. This is due to insufficient parsing of URLs containing double slashes. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to poison the site's cache potentially resulting in harmful content being served to visitors.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-super-cache (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8
Patched Version
  • 1.9
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