ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager: Cross-site request forgery
ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager 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
- ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager
- Plugin slug
thirstyaffiliates-affiliate-link-manager- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 25, 2022
This CVE was published Apr 25, 2022 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager 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 ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager WordPress plugin before 3.10.5 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when creating affiliate links, which could allow any authenticated user, such as subscriber to create arbitrary affiliate links, which could then be used to redirect users to an arbitrary website
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N