MainWP Child Reports, CVE-2024-7492

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-7492
Home page URL: Security reports for MainWP Child Reports
Application: MainWP Child Reports
Published on: Aug 08, 2024
Research Description: The MainWP Child Reports plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the network_options_action() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options that can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This is only exploitable on multisite instances.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.2.1.
Status: vulnerable