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Crypto, CVE-2024-9990

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-9990

Application

Crypto

Published on
Oct 29, 2024
Research Description
The Crypto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.15. This is due to missing nonce validation in the 'crypto_connect_ajax_process::check' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.16.
Status
vulnerable