Headline

CVE-2017-20090: Cross-Site Request Forgery in Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin

A vulnerability was found in Global Content Blocks Plugin 2.1.5. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely.

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From: Summer of Pwnage <lists () securify nl>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 07:04:00 +0100

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cross-Site Request Forgery in Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin

Yorick Koster, July 2016

Abstract

It was discovered that the Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. Amongst others, this issue can be used to update a content block to overwrite it with arbitrary PHP code. Visiting a page or blog post that uses this content block will cause the attacker’s PHP code to be executed.

OVE ID

OVE-20160712-0031

Tested versions

This issue was successfully tested on Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin version 2.1.5.

Fix

There is currently no fix available.

Details

https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_request_forgery_in_global_content_blocks_wordpress_plugin.html

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