Cross-site request forgery in Htaccess by BestWebSoft - CVE-2020-8658
Published: February 6, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25005
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8658
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 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.
Affected software
Htaccess by BestWebSoft
How to mitigate CVE-2020-8658
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.