WP Meta SEO <= 4.4.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-30337
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published June 22, 2022
Last Updated January 6, 2023

Description

The WP Meta SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.4.8. This is due to incorrect nonce validation which only verifies the presence of a nonce value rather than the on the validity of the nonce on a couple of cases in the loadPage() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings via a 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 WP Meta SEO

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-meta-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.4.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4.8
Patched Version
  • 4.4.9

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