WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2022-4872 Modified

Chained Products: Cross-site request forgery

Chained Products is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
NVD score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Chained Products
Plugin slug
chained-products
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Jan 30, 2023
Weakness
CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Jan 30, 2023 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Chained Products 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 Chained Products WordPress plugin before 2.12.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks, as well as does not ensure that the option to be updated belong to the plugin, allowing unauthenticated attackers to set arbitrary options to 'no'

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources