WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress < 5.5.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Change Theme Background

Description

Erwan, a security researcher from the WPScan team, discovered and responsibly disclosed a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to change the background image of the theme. For a successful attack, a privileged authenticated WordPress user would need to visit a page the attack controls, for the CSRF attack to be executed.

Affects WordPress

Fixed in WordPress 5.5.2
Fixed in WordPress 5.5.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
ErwanLR from WPScan
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2020-10-29 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2020-10-31 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2021-10-22 (about 2 years ago)

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