WordPress Permalinks Customizer Plugin <= 2.8.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• yasglobalizer permalinks customizerup to 2.8.2 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• YAS Global Team Permalinks Customizer

  • n/a and later · up to and including 2.8.2affected

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.