Jock on air now <= 5.6.1 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
898ba68f-2b0c-462a-87ee-272ee624396ePublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.6.1Update to 5.6.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.5
- CVSS
- 6.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:HIntegrity- High
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
- Affected≤ 5.6.1
- Patched in5.6.2
Update to 5.6.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.6.1. Version 5.6.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Jock On Air Now (JOAN).
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.6.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Jock On Air Now (JOAN) to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WPScanTeam.
The Jock on air now plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 5.6.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation when saving its settings. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary plugin settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.
