Discy: Cross-site request forgery
Discy 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
- Discy
- Plugin slug
discy- 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 Discy 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 Discy WordPress theme before 5.2 does not check for CSRF tokens in the AJAX action discy_reset_options, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into resetting the site settings back to defaults.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N