CVE-2019-11886

The WaspThemes Visual CSS Style Editor (aka yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer) plugin before 7.2.1 for WordPress allows yp_option_update CSRF, as demonstrated by use of yp_remote_get to obtain admin access.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers	Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-style-editor-wordpress-plugin-contains-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-that-leads-to-option-update-vulnerability/
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:yellowpencil:visual_css_style_editor:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2019-05-13 05:29

Updated : 2019-05-15 03:29

NVD link : CVE-2019-11886

Mitre link : CVE-2019-11886

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-11886

JSON object : View

Products Affected

yellowpencil

visual_css_style_editor

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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