15 Abuses: CSRF JUN 2021 | Cross-Site Request Forgery JUN 2021

CSRF JUN 2021 – Cross-Site Request Forgery JUN 2021

Managed WordPress Security Report

Be informed about the latest Cross-Site Request Forgery JUN 2021, identified and reported publicly. As these CSRF JUN 2021 vulnerabilities have a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security, consider our FREE security AUDIT.

An estimated 2.174.800+ active WordPress installations are susceptible to this attack type, considering only the publicly available numbers. The estimated number can increase by 5-10% with premium versions as they are private purchases.

Furthermore, the initial estimation can triple if we consider the already patched versions BUT NOT UPDATED by owners, as the vulnerability remains active within their domain. As these owners start changing their hosting provider (due to constant unexplained issues), they actively migrate these vulnerabilities behind protected areas, possibly exposing other clean WP to different attack types.

It is a whooping 275% increase compared to December 2020. We compare last month versus previous winter holiday season, which has the biggest shopping traffic and attack spike throughout the year. Read more about our previous reports here: 3 Abuses: CSRF MAY 2021 | Cross-Site Request Forgery MAY 2021 and 4 CSRF – Cross-Site Request Forgery – WordPress Security DEC. The following cases made headlines just last month in the CSRF JUN 2021 category:

 

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• Glass – CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
  • This plugin has been closed as of May 26, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.

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• MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress – Unauthorized Actions via CSRF
  • This plugin helps you grow your Mailchimp lists and write better newsletters through various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any existing form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form. Active installations: 2+ million

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• Absolute Reviews – CSRF
  • Add beautiful responsive and modern review boxes with valid JSON-LD schema to your posts with the “Advanced Reviews” plugin. Active installations: 7,000+

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• Advanced Popups – CSRF
  • Display high-converting newsletter popups, a cookie notice, or a notification with the light-weight yet feature-rich plugin. Active installations: 9,000+

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• Remove Schema – CSRF
  • Remove Schema optionally removes all schema markup from your website. Active installations: 2,000+

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• Sunshine Photo Cart – CSRF
  • Sunshine Photo Cart is a WordPress client proofing gallery & photo cart plugin. You can have a full-featured system to sell photos on your own website with no limits or commissions. Easily create galleries, sell to clients, and make more money than ever. Active installations: 1,000+

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• Ultimate Gift Cards For WooCommerce – CSRF
  • Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce plugin allows merchants to create, sell, and manage gift cards at their WooCommerce store. Customers can purchase these gift cards and send them to anyone by email. The recipient can use this card to make purchases at your store and he/she can also recharge/redeem these cards at your online or retail store. Active installations: 3,000+

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• wp-mpdf – CSRF
  • Print WordPress posts as PDF. Optional with Geshi highlighting. It also has support for password protected posts and only logged in users can print post as pdf support. Active installations: 1,000+

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• YOP Poll – Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
  • YOP Poll plugin allows you to easily integrate a survey in your blog post/page and to manage the polls from within your WordPress dashboard but if offers so much more than other similar products. Simply put, it doesn’t lose sight of your needs and ensures that no detail is left unaccounted for. Active installations: 20,000+

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• CiviCRM – CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
  • CiviCRM is an open source project that produces software for nonprofit and civic sector organizations. CiviCRM, the software, is a web-based, highly customizable CRM released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPL v3). CiviCRM is used by a diverse range of organizations around the world and translated into dozens of languages.

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• Contact Form Plugin – Fastest Contact Form Builder Plugin for WordPress by Fluent Forms – Cross-Site Request Forgery
  • WP Fluent Forms is the ultimate user-friendly, customizable drag-and-drop WordPress Contact Form Plugin that offers you all the premium features, plus many more completely unique additional features. A perfect WordPress Form builder plugin should be developed in a way, so that you don’t have to code every time you need to integrate a form in your website, but can be set up in minutes. And that’s why, we have developed WP Fluent Forms for you. Active installations: 90,000+

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• WP Prayer – Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update via CSRF
  • Prayer request application that allows users to submit requests, or pray for existing requests. All requests can be moderated from the admin section. Active installations: 1,000+

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• VikRentCar Car Rental Management System – CSRF to Stored XSS
  • The popular car rental management system is now available also for WordPress as a Native Plugin! Active installations: 800+

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• Multivendor Marketplace Solution for WooCommerce – CSRF Bypass
  • Afraid of launching an Online Marketplace? Well, worry no more WC Marketplace provides you with the best marketplace software, you can get, to kickstart your own virtual eCommerce marketplace. This free WordPress plugin equips you with the best of features that help to create any marketplace of your choice. So, create a website like Amazon, Etsy or Airbnb without any worries. Active installations: 10,000+

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• WooCommerce Stock Manager – CSRF to Arbitrary File Upload
  • WooCommerce Stock Manager allows you manage stock for products and their variables from one screen. Active installations: 30,000+

BRIEF: Cross-Site Request Forgery JUN 2021 is a type of malicious exploit of a website where unauthorised commands are submitted from a user that the web application trusts. Cross-site request forgery is also known as one-click attack, session riding, CSRF, XSRF, Sea Surf, Session Riding, Cross-Site Reference Forgery, or Hostile Linking.

What is Cross-Site Request Forgery JUN 2021?

Cross-site request forgery (also known as CSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce users to perform actions that they do not intend to perform. It allows an attacker to partly circumvent the same-origin policy, which is designed to prevent different websites from interfering with each other. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they’re currently authenticated.

With a little help of social engineering (such as sending a link via email or chat), an attacker may trick the users of a web application into executing actions of the attacker’s choosing. If the victim is a normal user, a successful CSRF attack can force the user to perform state-changing requests like transferring funds, changing their email address, and so forth. If the victim is an administrative account, CSRF can compromise the entire web application.

What is the impact of a CSRF JUN 2021 attack?

In a successful CSRF attack, the attacker causes the victim user to act unintentionally. Example: this might be to change the email address on their account, to change their password, or to make a funds transfer. Depending on the nature of the action, the attacker might be able to gain full control over the user’s account. If the compromised user has a privileged role within the application, then the attacker might be able to take full control of all the application’s data and functionality.

 

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