Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Pocket News Generator Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-2964

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Pocket News Generator
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-2964?

The Pocket News Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the option_page() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Version(s)

Pocket News Generator * <= 0.2.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pocket-news-ge...

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

Benedictus Jovan
.