Greeklish-permalink: Cross-site request forgery
Greeklish-permalink 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
- Greeklish-permalink
- Plugin slug
greeklish-permalink- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 10, 2023
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Jul 10, 2023 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Greeklish-permalink 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 Greeklish-permalink WordPress plugin through 3.3 does not implement correct authorization or nonce checks in the cyrtrans_ajax_old AJAX action, allowing unauthenticated and low-privilege users to trigger the plugin's functionality to change Post slugs either directly or through CSRF.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N