CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11886
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
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.
Affected configurations
• yellowpencil visual css style editor (< 7.2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256 wpvulndb.com
- 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/ www.pluginvulnerabilities.com
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/#developers Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9256 wpvulndb.com
- 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/ www.pluginvulnerabilities.com
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/04/zero-day-vulnerability-in-yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer-exploited-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory