Vulnerability · Published Mar 17, 2023 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2023-1472RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize <= 1.7.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Medium 6.3
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically from shakee93. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The RapidLoad Power-Up for Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.7.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on its AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those functions, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Actions include resetting the API key, accessing or deleting log files, and deleting cache among others.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| shakee93 | RapidLoad AI – Optimize Web Vitals Automatically | 0 – through 1.7.1 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L