Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-13444wp-greet <= 6.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in wp-greet from tuxlog. 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 wp-greet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dafc40bf-833a-4d42-b9bc-c7cf2b234ef5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-greet/trunk/wpg-form.php#L253
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-greet/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-greet/trunk/wpg-admin.php#L124
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-greet/trunk/wpg-admin.php#L350
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3225035/