CVE-2021-24802 (GCVE-0-2021-24802)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-17 10:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI
Title
Colorful Categories < 2.0.15 - Arbitrary Colors Update via CSRF
Summary
The Colorful Categories WordPress plugin before 2.0.15 does not enforce nonce checks which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin or editor change taxonomy colors via a CSRF attack
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Colorful Categories Affected: 2.0.15 , < 2.0.15 (custom)
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Credits
apple502j
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