CVE-2022-1757 (GCVE-0-2022-1757)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-11 12:56 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:16
VLAI
Title
Pagebar < 2.70 - Arbitrary Settings Update via CSRF to Stored XSS
Summary
The pagebar WordPress plugin before 2.70 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. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation in some of them, it could also lead to Stored XSS issues
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2070 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown pagebar Affected: 2.70 , < 2.70 (custom)
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Credits
Daniel Ruf
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