Seraphinite Accelerator: Cross-site request forgery
Seraphinite Accelerator 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
- Seraphinite Accelerator
- Plugin slug
seraphinite-accelerator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 27, 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Nov 27, 2023 and is one of 10 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Seraphinite Accelerator 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 Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.20.32 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when resetting and importing its settings, allowing unauthenticated users to reset them
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N