Vigil@nce - WordPress Contact Form by WD: Cross Site Request Forgery
July 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of WordPress
Contact Form by WD, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 02/05/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Contact Form by WD plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of
WordPress Contact Form by WD, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Contact-Form-by-WD-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-29173