miniOrange's Google Authenticator: Cross-site request forgery
miniOrange's Google Authenticator 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
- miniOrange's Google Authenticator
- Plugin slug
google-authenticator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 21, 2022
This CVE was published Mar 21, 2022 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update miniOrange's Google Authenticator 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 miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks when handling the reconfigureMethod, and does not validate the parameters passed to it properly. As a result, unauthenticated users could delete arbitrary options from the blog, making it unusable.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H