WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2020-35135 Modified

Ultimate Category Excluder: Cross-site request forgery

Ultimate Category Excluder 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.

CVE / CNA score 8.8 CVSS · cve@mitre.org
NVD score 8.8 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Ultimate Category Excluder
Plugin slug
ultimate-category-excluder
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Dec 11, 2020
Weakness
CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

This CVE was published Dec 11, 2020 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Ultimate Category Excluder 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.

Source record

Technical description

The ultimate-category-excluder plugin before 1.2 for WordPress allows ultimate-category-excluder.php CSRF.

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Primary and upstream sources