Cross-site request forgery in WP Fastest Cache - CVE-2018-17584
Published: April 16, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18281
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17584
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as change plugin configuration.
Affected software
WP Fastest Cache
How to mitigate CVE-2018-17584
Install updates from vendor's website.
WP Fastest Cache - update to 0.8.8.6