CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin: Cross-site request forgery
CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin 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.
- Component
- CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin
- Plugin slug
cm-tooltip-glossary-powerful-glossary-plugin- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 02, 2024
This CVE was published May 02, 2024 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin 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 CM Tooltip Glossary – Powerful Glossary Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.11. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when saving settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the plugin's settings or reset them via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N