Cross-site request forgery in Contact Form 7 Style - CVE-2021-24159
Published: April 12, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU52052
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:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-24159
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Johnny, dorumarginean, mlehelsz, MirceaR
Affected software:
Contact Form 7 Style
Contact Form 7 Style
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 in the custom CSS feature. 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2021-24159
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.