Vulnerability Report
Plugin Medium

Animated Rotating Words <= 5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_admin_options

The Animated Rotating Words (Interchanging Random Words in a Sentence) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_admin_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Published
Nov 03, 2023
Last Updated
Jan 22, 2024
Slug
css3-rotating-words
Detailed Metadata
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug
css3-rotating-words View on wordpress.org
CVE CVE-2023-47187
Patched Versions
5.5
Affected Versions
*-5.4
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