Dropdown Menu Widget <= 1.9.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.4
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-25113
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 14, 2022
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Dropdown Menu Widget WordPress plugin through 1.9.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving its settings, allowing low privilege users such as subscriber to update them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

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Vulnerability Details for Dropdown Menu Widget

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug dropdown-menu-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.7

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