Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart: Cross-site request forgery
Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart 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
- Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart
- Plugin slug
wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 13, 2014
This CVE was published May 13, 2014 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart 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 WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart plugin before 3.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change plugin settings.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P