CVE-2022-3898 (GCVE-0-2022-3898)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-29 20:42 – Updated: 2025-01-23 20:50
VLAI?
Summary
The WP Affiliate Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 6.3.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on various functions including the affiliates_menu method. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete affiliate records, via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tipsandtrickshq WP Affiliate Platform Affected: * , ≤ 6.3.9 (semver)
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Credits
Marco Wotschka
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