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JVNDB-2019-000070

WordPress Plugin "WP Spell Check" vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

Overview

WordPress Plugin "WP Spell Check" provided by Tips and Tricks HQ contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability (CWE-352).

Takuya Yamaguchi of Cryptography Laboratory,Department of Information and Communication Engineering,Tokyo Denki University directly reported these vulnerabilities to the developer and coordinated on her 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


WP Spell Check
  • WP Spell Check 7.1.9 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

WP Spell Check
CWE (What is CWE?)

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

  1. CVE-2019-6027
References

  1. JVN : JVN#26838191
  2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2019-6027
Revision History

  • [2019/11/26]
      Web page was published

Date Public2019/11/26
Date First Published2019/11/26
Date Last Updated2019/11/26