8.8
HIGH
CVE-2019-11886
WaspThemes WordPress CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

May 13, 2019, 5:29 a.m.

Last Modified :

May 15, 2019, 3:29 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-11886 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Yellowpencil visual_css_style_editor

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-11886 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-11886 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 15, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 13, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference 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/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 13, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers No Types Assigned https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/ No Types Assigned https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-352
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:yellowpencil:visual_css_style_editor:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (excluding) 7.2.1
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.28 }} 0.02%

score

0.68619

percentile

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