Affiliates Manager: A security weakness
Affiliates Manager is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Affiliates Manager
- Plugin slug
affiliates-manager- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 16, 2022
This CVE was published Sep 16, 2022 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Affiliates Manager to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Affiliates Manager WordPress plugin before 2.9.14 does not validate and sanitise the affiliate data, which could allow users registering as affiliate to perform CSV injection attacks against an admin exporting the data
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H