Arbitrary post deletion via unprotected button request
Published Nov 1, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Cross-site request forgery in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe before 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to induce arbitrary post deletion. The donation-button deletion handler accepts a post identifier without a CSRF token and deletes the referenced post without confirming its button post type. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to submit an attacker-controlled request, and its bounded impact is deletion of any WordPress post available to that handler.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe before 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to induce arbitrary post deletion. The donation-button deletion handler accepts a post identifier without a CSRF token and deletes the referenced post without confirming its button post type. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to submit an attacker-controlled request, and its bounded impact is deletion of any WordPress post available to that handler.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-24572
- Published
- Nov 1, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Scott Paterson
- Product
- Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe
- Classifications
- CWE-352, CAPEC-62, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 1, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.3.1 <1.3.1
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Public exploit references
- WPScan cross-site request forgery proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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