HL Twitter: Cross-site request forgery
HL Twitter 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
- HL Twitter
- Plugin slug
hl-twitter- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 15, 2024
This CVE was published May 15, 2024 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update HL Twitter 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 HL Twitter WordPress plugin through 2014.1.18 does not have CSRF check when unlinking twitter accounts, which could allow attackers to make logged in admins perform such actions via a CSRF attack
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N