Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Nested Pages Plugin
CVE-2024-5943

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Nested Pages
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 July 2024

Summary

The Nested Pages plugin for WordPress is exposed to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability due to inadequate nonce validation in the 'settingsPage' function and insufficient sanitization of the 'tab' parameter. This flaw permits unauthorized users to craft requests that can exploit the actions of authenticated users, particularly site administrators. By deceiving an admin into clicking a malicious link, an attacker could leverage this issue to perform unintended actions, undermining the security and integrity of affected WordPress installations.

Affected Version(s)

Nested Pages * <= 3.2.7

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-nested-page...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-nested-page...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bassem Essam
.