DW Question & Answer Pro: Cross-site request forgery
DW Question & Answer Pro 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
- DW Question & Answer Pro
- Plugin slug
dw-question-&-answer- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 25, 2022
This CVE was published Apr 25, 2022 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update DW Question & Answer Pro 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 DW Question & Answer Pro WordPress plugin through 1.3.4 does not properly check for CSRF in some of its functions, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as update a comment or a question status.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N