Cross-Site Request Forgery in Feedzy RSS Aggregator Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2020-36758

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Rss Aggregator By Feedzy – Feed To Post, Autoblogging, News & Youtube Video Feeds Aggregator
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 October 2023

What is CVE-2020-36758?

The Feedzy RSS Aggregator plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a Cross-Site Request Forgery due to inadequate nonce validation in its save_feedzy_post_type_meta() function. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to potentially manipulate post meta by deceiving an administrator into executing an action via a fraudulent request. Exploiting this flaw requires social engineering techniques to entice the administrator into clicking a malicious link, thus compromising site integrity.

Affected Version(s)

RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator * < 3.4.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerab...
https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-th...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Jerome Bruandet
.