vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: upload-media-by-url: CVE-2023-3720: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Aug 2, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

The Upload Media By URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'umbu_download' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files of any type administrators are allowed to upload via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Solution

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