Genie WP Favicon: Cross-site request forgery
Genie WP Favicon 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
- Genie WP Favicon
- Plugin slug
genie-wp-favicon- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 08, 2021
This CVE was published Nov 08, 2021 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Genie WP Favicon 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 Genie WP Favicon WordPress plugin through 0.5.2 does not have CSRF in place when updating the favicon, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change it 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