Cross-Site Request Forgery in Chained Quiz Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2022-4220

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Chained Quiz
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 December 2022

What is CVE-2022-4220?

The Chained Quiz plugin for WordPress contains a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability due to the absence of nonce validation in the list_questions() function. This weakness allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate quiz content by tricking administrators into executing malicious link actions, potentially leading to unauthorized deletion of questions from quizzes.

Affected Version(s)

Chained Quiz * <= 1.3.2.4

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/chained-quiz/t...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...
https://gist.github.com/Xib3rR4dAr/417a11bcb9b8da28cfe5ba...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
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

Muhammad Zeeshan (Xib3rR4dAr)
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The Cyber Security Vulnerability Database.