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CVE-2024-7568: Favicon Generator <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Favicon Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the output_sub_admin_page_0 function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. The plugin author deleted the functionality of the plugin to patch this issue and close the plugin, we recommend seeking an alternative to this plugin. CVE-2024-7864 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• Favicon Generator (CLOSED): before 2.1 — fixed in 2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Favicon Generator (CLOSED) 2.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3139340%40favicon-generator&new=3139340%40favicon-generator&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6eb3ad80-3510-4018-91af-b733ef62e28f?source=cve

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