CVE-2019-11886

high-risk
Published 2019-05-13

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.

Do I need to act?

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26.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 73% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Yellowpencil

References (8)

Release Notes https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-styl...
Exploit https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-v...
Release Notes https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/04/09/recently-closed-visual-css-styl...
Exploit https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-v...
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high-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 15/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal