Ask me: Cross-site request forgery
Ask me 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
- Ask me
- Plugin slug
ask-me- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 08, 2022
This CVE was published Jun 08, 2022 and is one of 3 known issues for this theme.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Ask me 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 Ask me WordPress theme before 6.8.2 does not perform CSRF checks for any of its AJAX actions, allowing an attacker to trick logged in users to perform various actions on their behalf on the site.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N