Member Approval: Cross-site request forgery
Member Approval 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
- Member Approval
- Plugin slug
member-approval- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 11, 2014
This CVE was published Jun 11, 2014 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Member Approval 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
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Member Approval plugin 131109 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change plugin settings to their default and disable registration approval via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P