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Rewterz Threat Alert – Critical Vulnerability affecting the Ad Inserter WordPress plugin

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

The function check_admin_referer() is intended to protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks by ensuring that a nonce (a one-time token used to prevent unwanted repeated, expired, or malicious requests from being processed) is present in the request. Authenticated attackers can bypass authorization checks implemented by the check_admin_referer() function to access the debug mode provided by the Ad Inserter plugin for admins.

Impact

Execution of arbitrary code

Affected Vendors

WordPress

Remediation

Update to 2.4.22 version.

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