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JVNDB-2019-000049

WordPress Plugin "Category Specific RSS feed Subscription" vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

Overview

WordPress Plugin "Category Specific RSS feed Subscription" provided by Tips and Tricks HQ contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability (CWE-352).

Gota Abe of Cryptography Laboratory,Department of Information and Communication Engineering,Tokyo Denki University directly reported this vulnerability to the developer and coordinated on his own.
After coordination was completed, this case was reported to IPA, and JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer for the publication under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V3 Severity:
Base Metrics 4.3 (Medium) [IPA Score]
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Unchanged
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: None
CVSS V2 Severity:
Base Metrics 2.6 (Low) [IPA Score]
  • Access Vector: Network
  • Access Complexity: High
  • Authentication: None
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Partial
  • Availability Impact: None
Affected Products


Tips and Tricks HQ
  • Category Specific RSS feed Subscription version v2.0 and earlier

Impact

If a user views a malicious page while logged in, unintended operations may be performed.
Solution

[Update the plugin]
Update the plugin according to the information provided by the developer.
Vendor Information

Tips and Tricks HQ
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. Cross-Site Request Forgery(CWE-352) [IPA Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2019-5993
References

  1. JVN : JVN#92510087
  2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2019-5993
Revision History

  • [2019/07/18]
      Web page was published
  • [2019/10/08]
      References : Content was added

Date Public2019/07/18
Date First Published2019/07/18
Date Last Updated2019/10/08