WooHoo Newspaper Magazine Theme <= 2.5.3 - Settings Update via CSRF

2023-10-2700:00:00

Bob Matyas

wpscan.com

csrf

security

plugin

admin

attack

html

toolbar

title

6.1 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

24.3%

JSON

Description The plugin does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack

PoC

Make an admin open an HTML page with the following HTML: See that the plugin’s “Header Options > Toolbar Options > Title” has been updated to CSRF Title