18 Oct 2016

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)/Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Site Analytics Plugin

We recently found that the Site Analytics Plugin contains a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the plugin’s setting pages, /wp-admin/plugins.php?page=siteanalytics.php.

The CSRF potion of the vulnerability was due to a lack of a nonce on the page and a lack of a check for a valid one when processing a request to change the plugin’s settings. [Read more]