Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more: Cross-site request forgery
Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more 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
- Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more
- Plugin slug
scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 04, 2025
This CVE was published Jan 04, 2025 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more 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 Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the reset_installation() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin’s installation via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L