Cross-site request forgery in Ultimate Member - User Profile & Membership Plugin - CVE-2019-10673
Published: April 6, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18146
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10673
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Ultimate Member
Affected software:
Ultimate Member - User Profile & Membership Plugin
Ultimate Member - User Profile & Membership Plugin
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as change the e-mail address in the administrator profile, and then the attacker is able to reset the administrator password using the WordPress "password forget" form.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10673
Install update from vendor's website.