Stops Core Theme And Plugin Updates: A security weakness
Stops Core Theme And Plugin Updates is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Stops Core Theme And Plugin Updates
- Plugin slug
stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Aug 27, 2019
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Aug 27, 2019 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Stops Core Theme And Plugin Updates 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 stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates plugin before 8.0.5 for WordPress has insufficient restrictions on option changes (such as disabling unattended theme updates) because of a nonce check error.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N