WordPress Instant Breaking News Plugin Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Vulnerability
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Instant Breaking News plugin, affecting versions through 1.0. This vulnerability allows for Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The issue arises from the plugin's failure to properly validate requests, enabling attackers to trick users with higher privileges into performing actions that could lead to the execution of malicious scripts.
Impact
Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to perform actions on behalf of users with higher privileges, potentially leading to the execution of malicious scripts that could be stored and executed later.
Remediation
Users of the WordPress Instant Breaking News plugin should update to version 1.0.1 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-updates for vulnerable plugins.
Vulnerability Rating
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