Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts: Cross-site request forgery
Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts 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
- Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts
- Plugin slug
customize-wordpress-emails-and-alerts- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 28, 2022
This CVE was published Feb 28, 2022 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts 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 Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts WordPress plugin before 1.8.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in its bnfw_search_users AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users to call it and query for user e-mail prefixes (finding the first letter, then the second one, then the third one etc.).
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N