Patreon WordPress <= 1.6.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

8.1
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24230
CVSS 8.1 (High)
Publicly Published March 26, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researchers Jetpack Scan team
George Stephanis
Benedict Singer
Miguel Neto
Fioravante Souza
Marc-Alexandre Montpas

Description

The Patreon WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.6.9. If exploited, this bug can be used to overwrite the “wp_capabilities” meta, which contains the affected user account’s roles and privileges. Doing this would essentially lock them out of the site, blocking them from accessing paid content. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make a logged in user overwrite or create arbitrary user metadata on the victim’s account once visited via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for Patreon WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug patreon-connect (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.7.0
Patched Version
  • 1.7.0

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