Colorful Categories: Cross-site request forgery
Colorful Categories is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Colorful Categories
- Plugin slug
colorful-categories- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 17, 2021
This CVE was published Nov 17, 2021 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
No fixed release is identified. Update Colorful Categories when a confirmed fixed release becomes available; until then, disable and remove it when the site's risk warrants.
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 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
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N