Whydowork Adsense: Cross-site request forgery
Whydowork Adsense 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
- Whydowork Adsense
- Plugin slug
whydowork-adsense- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 26, 2014
This CVE was published Nov 26, 2014 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Whydowork Adsense 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
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the whydowork_adsense page in wp-admin/options-general.php.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P