The Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_view function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary post titles via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Weakness
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Views_for_wpforms | Formviewswp | * | 3.2.2 (including) |
Extended Description
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:
Potential Mitigations
- Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
- Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
Related Attack Patterns
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- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/441.html
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- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html
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- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/536.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/546.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/550.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/551.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/552.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/556.html
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- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/562.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/563.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/564.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/578.html
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fviews-for-wpforms-lite%2Ftags%2F3.2.2\u0026old=3026471\u0026new_path=%2Fviews-for-wpforms-lite%2Ftags%2F3.2.3\u0026new=3026471\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2273c53-bc8a-45c7-914d-a3b934c2cb18?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fviews-for-wpforms-lite%2Ftags%2F3.2.2\u0026old=3026471\u0026new_path=%2Fviews-for-wpforms-lite%2Ftags%2F3.2.3\u0026new=3026471\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2273c53-bc8a-45c7-914d-a3b934c2cb18?source=cve