Cross-site request forgery in Htaccess by BestWebSoft - CVE-2020-8658
Published: February 6, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25005
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8658
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: BestWebSoft
Affected software:
Htaccess by BestWebSoft
Htaccess by BestWebSoft
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists within the "htccss_nonce_name" flag due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in "wp-admin/admin.php?page=htaccess.php&action=htaccess_editor". A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page that modifies the .htaccess file and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-8658
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.